From: Optimus@yabbs
To: all@yabbs
Subject: Help!!
Date: Tue Aug 16 23:31:29 1994
   I am a new user of the irc and I keep running into the same problem.  
After I connect I can never seem to join a channel.  I ussually type

ex:  


after typing this I usually get an error message like CHANNEL UNKNOWN.  
Could someone tell me what I am doing wrong.