infobot is an IRC bot written in Perl 5 which implements a sort of artificial intelligence by learning information from channel discussions and then responding intelligently to queries about this accumulated information. It also acts as a gateway to other useful sources of information (e.g.

Infobot is a perl IRC bot, first written in 1995 by Kevin Lenzo. The bot's main goal was to remember URL's and associate them with a descriptive name, so whenever someone needed a specific URL they could ask the bot. For that reason, the first Infobot, running in #macintosh on the EFNet IRC network, had the nickname 'url'.

An automatic response to an e-mail or Web inquiry used to provide additional information about a product or service. (See autoresponder and mailbot)

A server that automatically returns information requested by the user via email.

An email address that automatically returns information requested by the user.