BitlBee 1.0

We are both console lovers. But it is annoying to have a few ttys open with chat things in them. IRC, ICQ, MSN, Jabber... For X there is Gaim, which supports many chatprotocols. Why wasnt there such a thing for the console?
The idea to port Gaim was easily thought of, of course. But we liked our IRC clients. And we used it the most, so we used it best. Importing it into the IRC client was a nice idea. But what if someone liked a different client. Then (s)he had to duplicate our work.
Thats a shame, we thought. Doing work twice is pointless. So when Wilmer got the ingenious thought in his mind while farming, to create an IRC to other chatnetworks gateway, we were both so excited, that we started working on it almost immediately. And the result is BitlBee.
BitlBee is a multi-protocol IRC gateway.
Just install the program and connect to the BitlBee server with your favourite IRC-client. You will be force-joined into the control channel where root (the bot, your assistant, the bee) will try to help you to get the program working.
Enhancements:
- Another release with a speech!
- After more than three years, finally version 1.0 with, besides a couple of minor enhancements and bug fixes:
- Renamed the control channel to &bitlbee, mainly to avoid confusion with #bitlbee on OFTC.
- Jabber cleanup, plus handling for packets from RSS-to-Jabber feeds.
- Support for AIM typing notifications.
- Typing notifications now come in as a CTCP too. Dont forget to update your scripts!
- Fixes a possisble DoS bug.