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<p>
Anope is a set of IRC Services forked from Epona early 2003 to pick up where
Epona had been abandoned. Ever since there have been improvements on quality
and functionality of Anope, resulting in the feature rich set of services we
offer today.
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<p>
There are two releases of Anope available, allowing you to pick what is best
for your net. The stable releases we offer are snapshots of the development
series which are being continually tested, resulting in a very stable yet
powerful set of services. The development releases are where the real work
happens. New features get implemented in development release, resulting in a
package that defines the future of IRC Services today.
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<p>
We offer various services clients to maintain your IRC network. Every service
is aimed at one goal, offering a complete set of features for the given goal.
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<p>
<strong>NickServ</strong> - nickname management services. NickServ allows your
users to register their nickname to prevent others from stealing their nickname.
Your users will also be able to kill any ghost connections with their nickname
and will be able to group their most-used nicknames together so they can use
the same set of settings and access for all of their nicknames.
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<p>
<strong>ChanServ</strong> - channel management services. ChanServ provides
the ability to register your channels. This way ChanServ can be used to give
channel operator status to regular operators, or to lock other modes or a topic
for your channel. Our version of ChanServ provides a very complete set of
features for channel management, allowing complete control over your channel.
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<p>
<strong>MemoServ</strong> - send memos to users or channels. MemoServ offers
a way to send short messages to users who are currently offline, or to entire
channels if you wish. This allows you and your users to quickly tell offline
users something, without a chance of forgetting it.
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<p>
<strong>OperServ</strong> - operator utility services. OperServ provides a
very complete set of functionality for IRC Operators, allowing them to operate
their network in a very efficient way. Including often used features like akills
and session limiting, this black box for IRC Operators ensures a safe and easy
to manage IRC network.
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<p>
<strong>BotServ</strong> - channel bot services. BotServ allows you to create
several bots for your network. These bots can join channels and take over most
actions from ChanServ, making things just a tad more intuitive. Additionally,
BotServ also adds a few features like fantasy commands and kick triggers.
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<p>
<strong>HostServ</strong> - virtual host services. HostServ offers a way to
easily provide virtual hosts to the users on your network. If your IRCd supports
virtual hosts HostServ can be used as a very easy interface for setting them,
and enables the virtual host every time a user joins the network.
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<strong>Global</strong> - global noticer. Global allows you to send global
notices to everyone on your IRC network.
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