Client IRC

* Multiple Platforms: ChatZilla, Pidgin, jIRC, XChat, KVIrc,

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* Microsoft Windows: Bersirc, dIRC, HydraIRC, Klient, mIRC, pIRCh, Trillian, vIRC, XiRCON, Miranda IM, Microsoft Comic Chat (being mIRC most popular between the IRC).

* Unix(- like): BitchX, epic, IIRC, ircII, WeeChat, Kopete, KVIrc, XChat, TalkSoup (GNUstep), Zircon, Konversation (KDE)

* Mac OS: X-Chat Aqua, Fire, IRCle, Minerva, Snak, ShadowIRC, Colloquy, MacIrssi

* AmigaOS: AmIRC

Nets IRC have given place to the creation of "client automati to us" call to you "bot", abbreviation of "robot". The first one "bot" was written from Greg Lindahl and served from automated moderator for the Wumpus game.

Those most recent ones (between all eggdrop) instead are used in order to automate the moderation of the channels in the unprovided nets of services IRC (like NickServ, ChanServ and other implementazioni) even if are often only of annoyance to the customers (beyond that for the serveur who find again a greater cargo of customers to manage). They are usually develops in Java language and allow a standard to you of functionalities that space from the shipment of private messages to the email of not connected customers, R-all'.apertura of chat room private with customers online, to the shipment of emoticon to the inside of the messages.

An ulterior evolution in field of "bot" is sure the advent of psotnic, a bot whose speeds are by far advanced to those of a eggdrop. Anch' it is equipped of partyline, shipment private messages and expansions with script in c.