IRC Clients for BSD

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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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    A pidgin plugin that allows user to assign global hotkeys (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+g) for togglling buddy list and reading queued message. When "Toggle List" hotkey is enabled, it makes the buddy list hidden from your taskbar and task switcher (similar to ICQ).
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    Downloads: 13 This Week
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    Jarl is a Perl/Tk Client. It strives to provide full functionality with every aspect of the Jabber IM system. It currently supoprts messaging, chat, groupchat, ICQ, AIM, and IRC support.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    MSN ProxIRC is an IRC proxy (server) written in C++ which makes use of libMSN and OpenSSL. Whatever IRC server you are proxying, it shows virtual rooms to chat directly with your MSN contacts. Thread-safe and blazing fast.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Ayttm is an instant messenger program, supporting various protocols such as MSN, Yahoo, AIM, Jabber, and more. It is the heir of the Everybuddy project, and aims to continue improving the program and addressing its shortcomings.
    Downloads: 0 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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    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.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    FServ for pidgin lets you share your files through any instant messaging protocol suported by pidgin. Just put your files in the shared folder and any buddy can get it.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    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.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    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.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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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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    Gaim for Qtopia is an official port of the multi-protocol instant messenger client Gaim for the Zaurus and other PDAs running Qtopia. It supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, and Napster.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    ICQGATE is a 'gate' providing access to your IRC network for ICQ users. It can use multiple uins simultaneously, so there is nearly no maxusers limit. Currently can can be used only in hybrid-based networks
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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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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    JChatIM is an instant messaging (IM) system written in Java with support of smileys and skins
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    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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    KYchat is an evolution of the old irc client mIRC (TM). The goal is to make a MDI IM (IRC, MSN, ICQ) client that is easy on memory, extremely fast, and will run on linux or win32 platforms.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Kopete is a flexible and extendable multiple protocol instant messaging system designed as a plugin-based system.
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    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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    A application to securely communicate with other users through the internet or through modem! This application is in its Beta stage and is currently only running under Windows 98 / 2000 and up. It will in the future be compatible with linux and BSD.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    ICQ, MSN, IRC pure Java reusable plugin library with asynchronous operations
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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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.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Gaim Python plug-in. The product provides developers with the capability to develop python plugins for Gaim.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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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.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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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.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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