Regular IRC user here. I think IRC is the communication technologies I use the most, after that there's email, then identica/twitter, and then IM and facebook.

Regular IRC user here. I think IRC is the communication technologies I use the most, after that there's email, then identica/twitter, and then IM and facebook. I connect to IRC using ERC in an Emacs daemon running on my server. This way I don't need screen (I use it for other purpose thought), I just ssh and fireup an emacsclient.