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-dr.botzo --- an IRC bot
-
-   dr.botzo is an IRC bot written in Python and using irclib.py to handle most
-   of the protocol stuff. It is mostly a fun project for a couple of us to hack
-   around on, but you may find it useful, in which case you're free to copy
-   this source, send patches, etc.
-
-SOURCE
-
-   http://www.incorporeal.org/sw/?a=summary&p=dr.botzo
-
-AUTHORS
-
-   Brian S. Stephan <bss@incorporeal.org>
-
-DEVELOPMENT
-
-   The bot is currently written to be fairly modular. No real documentation on
-   this yet, but those interested in developing more features should take a
-   look at any of the ircplugin.py files.
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+## dr.botzo
+
+*an IRC bot*
+
+### Overview
+
+dr.botzo is an IRC bot written in Python, using Django as a backend and the irc library to handle most of the protocol stuff. It is mostly a fun project for a couple of us to hack around on, but you may find it useful.