I'm making an MMO game with several "levels" that will be distributed over different servers and need a centralized chat server. The general idea was to make an IRC (exarkun recommended Jabber but this is just a detail) server with channels like #all #<guild> #<room>, etcetera, and make the game client logon into it and let it handle all the chat data. I've been reading t.words's tap and service but I'm not getting the general idea of what a chat service (with probably an offline messaging service) should look like, and what does all of the stuff underneath words do, and wether I need it or not if I'm not going to be multi-protocol'ed Does anyone have a few pointers on what should I read before getting myself into it? words' documentation is not exactly throughout, so I'm kind of lost here Tomás (Lacrymology) -- |_|0|_| |_|_|0| |0|0|0|