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    Bot Sentry is a Pidgin (libpurple) plugin to prevent Instant Message (IM) spam. It allows you to ignore IMs unless the sender is in your Buddy List, the sender is in your Allow List, or the sender correctly answers a question you have predefined.
    Downloads: 12 This Week
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    This program serves as a link between two or more chat networks, allowing users on one network to communicate with users on another network. For example, you can be logged onto Battle.net and be talking to people on IRC and people on AIM at the same tim
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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  • 3
    The aim of this project is to design an open standard of distributed instant messenger protocol. Therefore, everyone can host instant messenger services through simple installation of server program that we provided.
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  • 4
    Fire is a multi-protocol instant messenger client for Mac OS X based on freely available libraries for each service. Currently Fire handles AOL Instant Messenger®, ICQ®, MSN® Messenger, Jabber, limited IRC, Yahoo!®, and Apple Bonjour communications.
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  • 5
    A fork of pidgin which aims to provide minor features that have not been addressed by the pidgin development team (including manual textbox resizing). See funpidgin.sf.net for details.
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    GAIM-STL provides a simple/secure transport layer over any existing Gaim protocol. STL plugins can be used to encrypt/decrypt text as needed.
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    An open-sourced all-in-one messenging client. The client includes AOL OSCAR, IRC, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, and ICQ (OSCAR). Written in Java for cross-platform support.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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  • 8
    Provides an overlay notification of events while using Gaim Instant Messaging client. This software utilizes the xosd library and should therefore support any platform that xosd and Gaim support.
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    Internet Relay Jabber (or IRJ) is a Jabber client for IRC. It's useful if you like IRC, but your friends use another IM service. It is written in Perl and uses Net::Jabber and Net::IRC. (This project is no longer under active development)
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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  • 10
    JChatIM is an instant messaging (IM) system written in Java with support of smileys and skins
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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  • 11
    JuMPingSoCketS is a Java Multi Protocol Server Client System (JMPSCS). It is a plugin-oriented communication tool for serveral filetransfer- and chatprotocols for both client and server protocols.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Kraken XMPP IM Gateway
    Kraken is a continuation of the Openfire IM Gateway plugin, but in a way that works for any XMPP server. It provides a way for XMPP users to log into, and communicate through, their legacy IM accounts such as AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, and friends.
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  • 13
    The MFlow project aims to create a modular messaging client in Java. Its architecture should make it as easy as possible to add support for new protocols, as well as maximizing configurability.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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  • 14
    ICQ, MSN, IRC pure Java reusable plugin library with asynchronous operations
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    This is an unofficial native port of Pidgin to Mac OS X. It uses native GTK+ (www.gtk-osx.org) which provides better integration and does not require X11. It also comes with more plugins out of the box, including OTR.
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    PlanetaMessenger.org is a Instant Messenger with support to all well known instant messenger networks including ICQ,MSN,AIM,Yahoo! and Jabber through a powerfull plugin engine. PlanetaMessenger.org support multiples look and feels, plugins and profiles.
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    Quotes Database System (formerly Salty Quotes Database, named so because it was made for the development site saltine.net) is a small script written by Kyle Florence a few years ago that will store IRC quotes, it's like your own personal bash.org.
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    IMPORTANT: As of 1 September 2011, I recommend that you download the fork of Rash here: https://github.com/paxed/rash-qdb-fork . Rash is a clone of the website bash.org. It was a project of mine in high school, and is no longer maintained.
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    notify4b is (Notify for business) a IM-messages sending package which helps you to send your application inner message to the various IM clients such as XMPP MSN etc. It can work easily and effiently by simply adding a deployment and a few codes to your
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    ptyaim is a simple curses client for AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, and IRC. It runs on many Unix-like systems, and Win32.
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  • 21
    wapbber is intended to be a fully featured jabber client for wireless devices, written in Perl, using Wireless Application Protocol (WAP).
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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