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+icbm (extensible threaded ICB client in Perl)
+
+ICB (Internet CB) is a teleconferencing system that allows Internet
+users to participate in realtime online discussions (similar to IRC).
+
+ICBM is a threaded ICB client written in Perl5 which supports a
+superset of the functionality of CICB (the ICB C Client, the de facto
+standard ICB client). This allows ICBM to be readily extended to
+support many features that CICB does not, and to gracefully do a
+number of things that CICB does poorly if at all.
+
+Note: in some terminals (e.g. urxvt), when icbm exits, it will
+leave the terminal in a state where the backspace key prints "^?"
+rather than backspacing. You can fix this with "stty erase ^?".
+Other terminals (e.g. xterm) don't have this problem.