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 == Configuring your IRC client ==
+Our shell server [[Machine/sunjammer|sunjammer]] runs an instance of [http://bip.milkypond.org/ BIP].
 IRC clients should be configured as follows:
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    Server password: USERNAME:PASSWORD:NETWORK
-The last field normally contains just your password. For BIP, you need to fill
+BIP uses the password field to encode three fields separated by a colon:
-it in with 3 fields separated by colon: your bip username (same of your shell
-account), the password you used with bipmkpw and the identifier of the IRC network
+* USERNAME: your bip username (same of your shell account)
-to connect to (for example, "freenode"). If you have multiple IRC networks, create
+* PASSWORD: the password you used with bipmkpw
-multiple server entries in your IRC client, each one with a different value for NETWORK.
+* NETWORK: the identifier of the IRC network to connect to (for example, "freenode").
+If you have multiple IRC networks, create multiple server entries in your IRC client,
+each one with a different value for NETWORK.
 This configuration is known to work with XChat.