1These are hook scripts for the CIA notification service at <http://cia.vc/> 2 3They are maintained by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>. There is an 4upstream resource page for them at <http://www.catb.org/esr/ciabot/>, 5but they are unlikely to change rapidly. 6 7You probably want the Python version; it's faster, more capable, and 8better documented. The shell version is maintained only as a fallback 9for use on hosting sites that don't permit Python hook scripts. 10 11You will find installation instructions for each script in its comment 12header.