Please consider this my vote for the ERC irc client.  I've been using it
for more than 6 months now, and love it.  I have found it easy to use with
no special configuration; (require 'erc) is all I needed to do.  Never
could wrap my head around ZenIRC

May I also take this time to ask that color-theme.el be added to the
Emacs distribution.

Jonathan

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