Jpilot jIRC applet only support Netscape4.0, IE4.0 or above. Please grant the permission when the pop up window appears from Netscape and IE.

Java doesn't work? firewall got you down? try the plain html chat client. If you have an IRC client you can connect to scoot.net and join #scoot. remember my chat name  If you are on Mac OSX you can try the scoot.net chat client for OSX. smaller chat window