February 1998			ChatMachine Version 1.1 '98 Edition

ChatMachine is a web chat engine written in Perl. 
Suggest and bug-reports are welcome. You use ChatMachine under your risk. 
ChatMachine is free. You can edit "include.pl" file and chat templates to 
meet your preferences and your web server settings. 
You CAN'T edit script code. Ask me for custom (and free) version of this 
package.
ONLY A REQUEST : insert ChatMachine logo in your chat-login page, with a 
link to my homepage (address below). Thanks.

How ChatMachine works.

LOGIN Page --> WELCOME Page --> CHAT Page --> LOGOUT Page

From login page you can access chat filling a form. A nickname and a 
password are required. If nickname is new, password and other 
informations (optional fields in the form) are saved. If not, password is 
checked and informations updated.
A error page can suggest you to change your nick or retype your password 
if it is incorrect. Else, a welcome page gives you access to chat.
From chat page you can read public and private messages. You can also 
send a message to all users, or a group of them. 
With a button you can logout from chat and then logout page is showed.
Staff members can also kick off a user from the chat or forbid access to 
a nick/ip/host/domain. See Control Center.

NEWS: ChatMachine Support Mailing List !

ChatMachine features :

- Unlimited rooms. 
- ChatMachine Control Center, complete remote control of your chat
   using your browser. 
- Complete user login control : open, close or reserve chat to 
   registered users.
- Frame support
- Client-Pull support 
- Fully configurable layout
- Security control with login password and hidden message password
- Staff operations ( kick off, ban )
- Public and private messages
- User number limit
- No special client software required
- Tags control in messages (autoclose opened tags, etc..)
- Time features (adjusting, chat opening, etc..)

ChatMachine support :

This is first '98 release of ChatMachine (1.1).
No documentation available : it's under construction.
Subscribe to ChatMachine mailing list.

The official ChatMachine homepage is 

(Web)			http://www.chatmachine.it

An online FAQ, KNOW-HOW section coming soon.

You can contact me by email at this address (but I'm very busy and it's possible I'll never reply,
sorry) :

	Vittorio Nardone	nards@iol.it

If you use ChatMachine, please tell me by email.

Thanks to use ChatMachine.