IRC

Channels are often built around a particular topic or theme, and one of the problems for any IRC user is finding the right channel to join. This chapter shows you how to find suitable channels by filtering entire channel lists from a network ...

If you haven't got a clue which IRC network to use, picking a random one is not always the best idea. You may find that the one you choose doesn't cater to your interests. A surefire method of picking the right network is to use an IRC sear...

The most obvious is to simply ask them what the time is. But what if they aren't around to answer your question? How do you know if they're asleep, not there, or simply ignoring you? First, you can try to get the user's hostname. You ...

pisg is the Perl IRC Statistics Generator. It's available from the web site http://pisg.sourceforge.net and is one of the most popular IRC statistics generators in use today. This hack will show you how to use it to create amusing statistic...

Sooner or later, you will probably want to write an IRC gadget that finds specific people in a channel (and possibly sends them a message or does something else to them). In a usual scenario, you can get the list of people dwelling in the cha...

One way of finding a relevant channel on a particular IRC network is to ask the network for the list of channels currently in use. Apart from guessing the names of these channels or finding them by word of mouth, you can apply appropriate fil...