which irc bot to use

[sToNeD_rApToR]

hi all
i have been using different clients for filesharing, i have used all the networks available except 2:
irc and newservers.

so i wanna try and learn how to use irc for file sharing. i d/l mirc, after installing and port forwarding and all other settings and i got to made it run, but i am not to be able to connect to all the servers like efnet. while searching for how to learn using irc, i came across bots, i did google it but got hundreds of results showing different bots for irc.
so my problem is:
-> there are so many networks, how do i find which one is the best to join and which will have the max number of users and files(high quality).
-> and which bot to use, i have already installed mirc, can it be used for downloading or do i need some other bots preferablly a bot which is gui based.
i thnk tat will be all for now.

[cpugeniusmv]

If you're just downloading you won't need a "bot" per se.

A lot of people use things like XDCC Klipper...but be careful with that. Any kind of automation to IRC filesharing is difficult to do, because it's common to run into bots that don't conform [to the standard xdcc send command] because their owners don't want automated scripts to be able to get files from them.

Be careful, especially with timers. They can and will get you banned from a bot, or even a channel.

As for where the files are, there's not really a one best place. I tend to go to wherever the files that I'm looking for happen to be.

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