"Bitlbee is a chat system gateway that allows you to connect to several other instant messaging services via a regular IRC client. This offers the advantage that you can manage accounts on chat networks like Jabber, MSN, Yahoo, and AIM/ICQ, all in your favourite IRC client to leverage its own features. In this article we will see how Bitlbee works, and get started with setting up an account on a public server.
"A Bitlbee server acts as an intermediate between your IRC client and the intsant messaging network. It essentially appears as an ordinary server to IRC clients..."
