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    Ghost is an open source irc bot project. It is loosely based off of eggdrop 1.4. Created by Einride and Ievil. No longer maintained, and has a weakness in its encryption used for linking.
    Downloads: 115 This Week
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    X-Chat Aqua is X-Chat with an Aqua interface for MacOS X. X-Chat Aqua uses the irc engine from X-Chat, and is designed to look and feel like the GTK+ front end.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Pidgin Extended Preferences provides additional preferences for Pidgin users. Most notably, it allows you to change the font size of conversation text without changing your theme and to change how quickly or whether the buddy list tooltips appear.
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    [discontinued, who wants me?] A bouncer for connections to the p2p network Filetopias server. Hiding your IP, it grant even more anonymity then filetopia does already.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Herald is a portable instant messaging client for the MSN Messenger service. Herald will run on any platform supporting the Java 2 environment.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Tapioca is a framework for Voice over IP (VoIP) and IM applications. Its main goal is to provide an easy way for developing and using VoIP/IM services in any kind of application. It provides a pluggable interface for different protocols, such as SIP/XMPP
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    gruftistats is a program to read IRC logs and produce an HTML page of statistics and amusing facts about an IRC channel.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    An Internet Corpus Linguistics analysis tool focusing on lexical variation over time and by geographical location. Initially the project will analyze word frequencies over time in the Linux Kernel Mailing List.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Hybrid Share is a User Friendly Mono C#/Gtk# Application that allow Mac, Windows and Linux Users To Share Files. The Application is extensible via Plugins, so you can Talk with connected people, check your mailbox or other things that plugins could do.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Free c++ cross platform developing environment for XMPP and Jabber based applications
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    palaver is a p2p multiuser chat program which does not require a central server. It is written in the portable python language, and as such can run unmodified on many platforms.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    - INACTIVE -
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Development team for open-source software used by the AUSTnet IRC Network (http://www.austnet.org/).
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    The Areaone IRCd is an extensive implementation of the irc protocol, based off of the Twilight IRCd (dreamforge based). Includes Oper host masking, increased serv<->serv efficiency, improved security, Bahamut-style nicks, some hybrid features, and more.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    The Awesome Christians User Page is set of PHP scripts that allow you to access IRC services such as nickserv, memoserv, chanserv, and statserv through a Web interface. It is used by the Awesome Christians IRC network.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    BlastServ is a plugin used with XChat and Mac OS X. It will be an IRC File Server (FServ or FServe), similar to SysReset for Windows or Obsidian. Fservs send files over DCC, and have an interface like FTP. They are a quick and easy way to transfer files.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Private chatting without the need of registration.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    A programm for the easy sharing of files on LAN-Partys. A Chat and LAN-Administration-Options (for LAN Games, Tournaments...) will be added also.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    CaraMush is a text based caramail client for linux written in C, it use ncurse, pthread and glib... With this software you can chat on Caramail server. It look like BichtX.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    CatBot is a simple, HTML/PHP/MySQL based chatterbot that's easy to set up and use. He comes equipped with a few commands, as well as a basic "learning" ability. With some moderate tweaking, he could make a very nice browser-based helpdesk assistant.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    A curses-based chat program with client and server in one package. POSIX compliant and very portable. Multiple user support very solid, no setup needed, very easy interface.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    A pure Java multithreaded text-based chat system; server, client applet and administration tools included.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Eggdrop administration script with mIRC/KVIrc interface aimed on clans (war manager, polls, pickup, simple channel & user protection)
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Cleverbot XMPP

    Connects Gmail and Facebook XMPP with Cleverbot

    Downloads: 0 This Week
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