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   6 <p>
   7 Anope is a set of IRC Services forked from Epona early 2003 to pick up where
   8 Epona had been abandoned. Ever since there have been improvements on quality
   9 and functionality of Anope, resulting in the feature rich set of services we
  10 offer today.
  11 </p>
  12 <p>
  13 There are two releases of Anope available, allowing you to pick what is best
  14 for your net. The stable releases we offer are snapshots of the development
  15 series which are being continually tested, resulting in a very stable yet
  16 powerful set of services. The development releases are where the real work
  17 happens. New features get implemented in development release, resulting in a
  18 package that defines the future of IRC Services today.
  19 </p>
  20 <p>
  21 We offer various services clients to maintain your IRC network. Every service
  22 is aimed at one goal, offering a complete set of features for the given goal.
  23 </p>
  24 <p>
  25 <strong>NickServ</strong> - nickname management services. NickServ allows your
  26 users to register their nickname to prevent others from stealing their nickname.
  27 Your users will also be able to kill any ghost connections with their nickname
  28 and will be able to group their most-used nicknames together so they can use
  29 the same set of settings and access for all of their nicknames.
  30 </p>
  31 <p>
  32 <strong>ChanServ</strong> - channel management services. ChanServ provides
  33 the ability to register your channels. This way ChanServ can be used to give
  34 channel operator status to regular operators, or to lock other modes or a topic
  35 for your channel. Our version of ChanServ provides a very complete set of
  36 features for channel management, allowing complete control over your channel.
  37 </p>
  38 <p>
  39 <strong>MemoServ</strong> - send memos to users or channels. MemoServ offers
  40 a way to send short messages to users who are currently offline, or to entire
  41 channels if you wish. This allows you and your users to quickly tell offline
  42 users something, without a chance of forgetting it.
  43 </p>
  44 <p>
  45 <strong>OperServ</strong> - operator utility services. OperServ provides a
  46 very complete set of functionality for IRC Operators, allowing them to operate
  47 their network in a very efficient way. Including often used features like akills
  48 and session limiting, this black box for IRC Operators ensures a safe and easy
  49 to manage IRC network.
  50 </p>
  51 <p>
  52 <strong>BotServ</strong> - channel bot services. BotServ allows you to create
  53 several bots for your network. These bots can join channels and take over most
  54 actions from ChanServ, making things just a tad more intuitive. Additionally,
  55 BotServ also adds a few features like fantasy commands and kick triggers.
  56 </p>
  57 <p>
  58 <strong>HostServ</strong> - virtual host services. HostServ offers a way to
  59 easily provide virtual hosts to the users on your network. If your IRCd supports
  60 virtual hosts HostServ can be used as a very easy interface for setting them,
  61 and enables the virtual host every time a user joins the network.
  62 </p>
  63 <p>
  64 <strong>Global</strong> - global noticer. Global allows you to send global
  65 notices to everyone on your IRC network.
  66 </p>