Bip or irssi with screen

quote from the laconica2IRC perl script comments:

Is "bip" better than irssi in screen?

# I wanted my own IRC user "say" the output, and that part was very easy
# because I use Bip, an IRC proxy that supports multiple clients on one irc
# server connection. This script was just going to be another client, and that
# is why I added password authentication. Bip is available in Debian and is
# very handy : I usually have an IRC client at home, one in the office,
# occasionnaly a CGI-IRC, rarely a mobile client and now this script - and to
# the dwellers of my favorite IRC channel there is no way to tell. And
# whichever client I choose, I never missing anything thanks to logging and
# replay on login. Screen with a command-line IRC client provides part of this
# functionnality, but the zero maintainance Bip does so much more and is so
# reliable that one has to wonder if my friends cling to Irssi and Screen out
# of sheer traditionalism.

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