Who is the NewsBot?

For most irc bots in existence, you communicate with them by explicitly sending them a command, for example:

 /msg botname hello

Or, the bot simply listens to channel traffic and responds when it sees a command:

 !playtrivia

Mircryptionboard works a little differently.  In order to properly encrypt the contents of information you send to the news bot, the mircryptionboard client script needs to intercept what you type and manipulate it before it sends it on its way to the news bot, much like mircryption intercepts and encrypts your traffic before sending it to the channel.

See the next section for instructions for configuring the newsbot for a channel.