h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Why not just set up a IRC chat for H2G2? This way everyone can talk at all times of the day? It is not that hard and I am sure that plenty of people would use it. I would even be willing to find someone to host this off their site if you are not able to do one on the BBC site.
John

Not everyone has an IRC client, or can install one. There's the same problem with MSN, etc. That's not a killer reason not to do it, though.

The bbc to have an IRC server:

irc://chat.bbc.co.uk

I'm sure they'd be willing to create a room, and I'm sure it would be fairly easy to create a java applet for it (since that's how most people access th channels I think).
It's also possible to enable and disable the channels at different times of the day.
And it has an automatic logging bot so stuff isn't lost.
It would also mean that we could use whatever client we wanted to use it.

Cool! I'd suspected the BBC would be too concerned at the lack of pre-moderation on IRC - nice to be proved wrong!

There aren't any unmanned channels, and they aren't afraid to kick (I've no idea what their ban policy is either), but it's a starting place.
And I rather like the idea of not having to load graphic intensive webpages in order to chat...