On Jan 12, 2006, at 15:01, Simon Wistow wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 02:48:33PM +0000, Leo Lapworth said: >> Adium - if you have OSX > > Unfortunately I don't and I want this to be controlled from within a > Perl script. > > > Looked at bitlbee? That makes IM look like IRC which may be a decent starting point. nic