to xenophobe plus help please.

I could not reply to you in the chatroom as I have absolutely no idea
how to. I had only been in about 5 seconds when I received a
message from you. Please excuse my ignorance but how does one
reply/make contact ? Also I did not understand something about
my "nick" not being registered. Anybody care to help out a dumbo.

To register your nick, type

/NickServ REGISTER <password> <emailaddress>

Next time you visit the chatroom you will have 60 seconds to type the
password

/NickServ IDENTIFY <password>

Thanks,
Chris

Interesting......I did not have to do anything. I just jumped into the
room and started chatting right away.

That's fine - but if you want to ensure that noone else uses your Nick,
you should register it.