Conferencing!
As I type this, there's a bunch of people yacking away at the following conference:
ziwt@conference.guildenstern.dyndns.org
(No, that's not an email address and no, you can't tunnel jabber over SMTP...yet)
Plug that into what ever option you have in your client for joining a group chat/conference.
Peter
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