Perhaps to get people used to going to it, you should announce times that people will be there. For example Scott you can just drop a listerv note that you'll be hanging around the chat room at 7 pm tonight. Once people get used to going to it again, it may become the social hang out again.
 
Just a suggestion.

I have 
> >been dropping in there once in a while, but no one
> is ever in there! Used 
> >to be a rather social place to hang out any given
> evening.


Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking
 
Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes
  On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated -- so:
"Something hidden.  Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges --
  "Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!"

 

Rudyard Kipling ,   The Explorer  1898






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