http://clusterrr.com/ is the homepage of CLirc check this out though. pick a local server. http://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/servers.html and between this http://princessleia.com/bitlbee.php and the bottom part of this page http://www.ds-xtra.com/IRCDS set clirc up to open your msn,aim,yahoo and whatever else. personally, when i run clirc, its set to auto load and sign into 2 irc servers with 2 irc rooms in each, my msn and my yahoo. that fills all 3 server spots. problem is, for the msn, only contacts that are ###@hotmail.com and ###@msn.com seem to show up on the friend list. I am trying to figure this out. but yahoo works fine. Edit: also, when it asks for: register password (change password to a unique password for bitlbee) enter something which will be what you type in each time you log onto the server. Example: register 1234 after you are done setting up, when you log onto the server you will enter: identify 1234 then it will ramble off a bunch of commands as it logs in and stuff. If you go into irc server settings and enter your password into the password field, you won't have to enter the identify command anymore. it'll log into it automatically.