..I 'think' I may have figured out what someone was telling me earlier...

In regards to getting in by 'regular' IRC....somehow, www.mudcat.org has been made an IRC server...whether it REALLY is, or just simulates it somehow, I have NO idea...but IF you have an IRC client..(a program that will go do IRC stuff.) I use mIRC..but the are a number of them....

somewhere in your IRC program is a list of servers..(Dalnet, Undernet...etc...) well..you simply ADD www.mudcat.org as one of those servers!!then connect to it...(on port 6667, if it isn't already)

then you watch it sign on...and when it is done,you type #mudcat in the box where it asks what room you want to join!

need more info?? just ask...(I tried, but got shorthand and had to work it out..)