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BORGChat

The most complete LAN Chat program

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BORGChat is a LAN chat program developed by a single author since 2002. The site describes it as still in beta, with a v1.0 release expected. It includes a main chat, private chats, open and private channels, a message board, file sending with bandwidth control, network browsing, and over 200 animated smiles. Users can help translate the program into additional languages.

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