Email works for me. If you'd rather, I'd be willing to try to figure out this whole chat/IM thing again -- I had it worked out in theory two years ago, but I never used it for anything, so that now I'd need to start all over again from the beginning -- but then you'd obviously need to wait while I did find the appropriate clients and glared at the services' privacy policies and stuff. And that glaring tends to take a while, even when the actual technical part is simple.