  <chapter id="intro">
    <title>Introduction</title>
    <sect1>
      <title>Scope of this document</title>
      <para>
	This document describes the commands and functions available to operators in
	the charybdis ircd, as used on <ulink url="http://www.atheme.net">AthemeNet</ulink>.
      </para>
      <para>
        This document, and various ideas for features of charybdis, have
	been taken from dancer-ircd/hyperion, the ircd used on freenode,
	mainly written by Andrew Suffield and Jilles Tjoelker.
      </para>
      <para>
	While this document may be of some interest to the users of charybdis servers,
	it is intended as a reference for network staff.
      </para>
      <para>
	Charybdis is based on ircd-ratbox 2.1.4, although much has changed.
	<ulink url="http://www.ircd-ratbox.org">ircd-ratbox</ulink> is commonly used
	on efnet, and some other networks.
      </para>
    </sect1>
  </chapter>
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