About PSYC: PSYC is a flexible text-based protocol for delivery of data to a flexible amount of recipients by unicast or multicast TCP or UDP. It is primarily used for chat conferencing, multicasting presence, friendcasting, newscasting, event notifications and plain instant messaging, but not limited to that. Existing systems can easily use PSYC, since PSYC hides its complexity from them. For example if an application wants to send data to one person or a group of people, it just needs to drop a few lines of text into a TCP connection (or UDP packet) to a static address. In other words: trivial. The PSYC network resembles more the Web rather than IRC, which it once was inspired by. Each administrator of a machine on the Internet can install a PSYC server which has equal rights in the world wide network. # No hierarchies, no boundaries. The administrator then has the right to decide which rooms or people to host, without interfering with other PSYC servers. Should an administrator behave incorrectly towards her users, they will simply move on to a different server. Thus, administrators must be have to be a popular PSYC host for their friends and social network. This implementation is in pretty stable and has been doing a good job in production environments for several years. See http://psyc.pages.de for protocol specs and other info on PSYC. for information about how to use Net::PSYC have a look at the pod included in the source-files. (perldoc PSYC.pm) INSTALL: perl Makefile.PL make make install http://perlpsyc.pages.de