All right, so there have been several times while at school where I have found that being able to chat via IRC would be seriously A+. However, it's a no-go. I have tried it from my laptop, as well as school computers, and I have tried it from various clients. They all give me the same kind of message. Here's the one I get when trying to connect to the EoFF IRC via the built-in Java webapp:

<i>Connecting...
Logging in...
Disconnected from irc.calindora.com </i>

That's it.

I'm guessing this has something to do with blocked ports? So is there anyway to get around this?