Eggdrop <communications> The world's most popular {open source IRC bot}, designed for flexibility and ease of use. Eggdrop is freely distributable under the {GPL}. It was originally developed by Robey Pointer but he no longer works on it. Eggdrop is designed to run on {Linux}, {*BSD}, {SunOs}, {Windows}, {Mac OS X} and other platforms. It is extendable with {Tcl} scripts and/or {C} modules. It supports {Undernet}, {DALnet}, {EFnet}, {IRCnet}, and {QuakeNet}. It can form {botnets} and share {partylines} and userfiles between bots. (2005-07-07)