A text-based web chat prototype with a databaser backend
                for concurrency management and text search. 

. current key features: 
                . email-based and integrated chat and bulletin board 
                        with on-line archiving and searching
                . multiple chat channels simultaneously
                . multiple chat communication modes within a channel:
                        personal conversations (one-to-one), 
                        group conferences(many-to-many), and
                        moderated auditoriums (one-to-many, talk show model).
                . multi-frame, chat client can be any netscape browser, 
                        parallel web/database/chat servers.