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Writing IM Bots

25th June 2002

Via Boing Boing: How to make your own IM Bots. This tutorial explains how to write a bot for both MSN and AIM using Perl running on Windows/DOS. Perl modules are provided to handle the actual protocols, and sample code is available to help you get started.

Posted 25th June 2002 at 10 am · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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