The ones on TUCOWS (at least the freebies) don't seem to like stardard clients, like mIRC. I need to be as standard as possible as I will be connecting different platforms (Sun, HP, Linux, Wintel, SGI) via IRC.
After more snooping, I could swear things read like BitchX is a server as well as a client ... even on Windows. I'll be trying it out tomorrow.
-SUO