Forums
Web-Based Message Boards
Bungle Fever has its own message board at
http://bbs.bunglefever.com. Anyone may register and post in on- & off-topic forums and a user
photo album here.
The r/mrbungle subreddit is a fairly active forum for conversations about the band. The discussions are not unlike those that used to take place on USENET a couple of decades ago.
Internet Relay Chat
IRC
is a chat network that tens of thousands of people world-wide connect to
daily for live discussions on a variety of subjects. IRC clients include
mIRC for Windows,
Bersirc for
Windows, Ircle for
Macintosh, and
ChatNet
for Macintosh. Channels (rooms) of interest include
#bungle.fever on
EFnet and
#ipecac
on DALnet, but new
channels are easily created and pop up constantly.
Connect to any EFnet or DALnet server and type "/join #channel", substituting the appropriate channel name. You can also connect to #bungle.fever via the Java applet linked above.
Newsgroups
A USENET newsgroup is a discussion group consisting of collections of
related articles that are posted to a news server. Newsgroups can be
read and contributed to by nearly everyone on the internet, and there
are thousands of newsgroups covering a wide range of subjects. Popular
web browsers often feature their own news readers, and some freeware
USENET clients are
Free Agent
for Windows,
Xnews for
Windows, and
MT-Newswatcher
for Macintosh.
The Mr. Bungle newsgroup is called alt.music.mr-bungle. Several dozen new articles typically appear on it daily, including occasional posts by people close to the band with the latest "official" information. It is not moderated, and anyone may contribute.
If you do not have access to alt.music.mr-bungle through your current internet service provider's news server, or you just want to avoid downloading a separate newsgroup program, you can access the Mr. Bungle group through Google Groups with your current web browser.