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<a href="Messaging-GroupChat.html">GroupChat
</a>.
</p> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <h3>Joining a chat room
</h3> <div class="taskboxtext"> <li>Add your account on an IRC server to Adium.
</li> <li>Select "Join Chat..." (⇧⌘J) from the File menu.
</li> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <div class="taskboxtext"> <p>You only need to enter a password for IRC servers requiring one to connect. In the case of freenode, identify to nickserv by entering "msg nickserv identify
<your-password
>", putting your password in the account's preferences will result in a "you are already connected" nickserv error.
</p> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <div class="taskboxtext"> <p>Many widely-used IRC commands like /join and /msg work in Adium too, but for ease of use these are accessible from the interface as well:
</p> <table class="list" cellspacing="0"> <th width="100">Command
</th> <th>Equivalent action
</th> <td>File → Join Group Chat... (⇧⌘J)
</td> <td>File → New Chat... (⌘N)
</td> <td>Contact → Get Info For Contact... (⌥⌘I)
</td> <td><i>Select the users you want to change the mode for, and use the button below the user list
</i></td> <td>File →
<i>Your IRC Account
</i> → View MOTD.
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