Scot is a Weblogbot - an IRC bot for creating weblogs for IRC communities.  He
was designed to be as very like Scribot (http://www.scribot.com), since several
of his users had previous experience with that bot.  His syntax is not quite
identical however, as he offers some features that that bot does not (eg the
ability to search from IRC).  The original Scot currently lives at
http://theproject.fierypit.org/~elvum/scot.php, although I don't guarantee that
that'll be the case for long!  Other, similar bots are the Chump Bot
(http://usefulinc.com/chump/) and the blogbot
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/blogbot).

Scot is released under the GPL version 2 - see COPYING for details.

Scot includes a copy of the MM Mysql JDBC drivers, licensed under the LGPL and available separately from http://mmmysql.sourceforge.net/old-index.html.
See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html for details of the LGPL.

Warning: Scot takes quite a lot of setting up, and while the instructions
contained in INSTALL are comprehensive, they may also be wrong (I haven't
actually checked them...) or not entirely appropriate to your situation.
You Have Been Warned!

Anyway - have fun... and if you do anything really interesting with Scot,
I'll be delighted to hear about it!

Steve Jolly, August 2002
