diff --git a/irc.py b/irc.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e8a09dd..0000000
--- a/irc.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,108 +0,0 @@
-import sys
-import re
-import socket
-import thread
-import asyncore
-import asynchat
-import Queue
-
-
-def decode(txt):
-    for codec in ('utf-8', 'iso-8859-1', 'shift_jis', 'cp1252'):
-        try:
-            return txt.decode(codec)
-        except UnicodeDecodeError:
-            continue
-    return txt.decode('utf-8', 'ignore')
-
-
-class crlf_tcp(asynchat.async_chat):
-    "Handles tcp connections that consist of utf-8 lines ending with crlf"
-
-    def __init__(self, host, port):
-        asynchat.async_chat.__init__(self)
-        self.set_terminator('\r\n')
-        self.buffer = ""
-        self.obuffer = ""
-        self.oqueue = Queue.Queue() #where we stick things that need to be sent
-        self.iqueue = Queue.Queue() #where we stick things that were received
-        self.create_socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
-        self.socket.setsockopt(socket.SOL_TCP, socket.TCP_NODELAY, 0)
-        self.host = host
-        self.port = port
-
-    def run(self):
-        self.connect((self.host, self.port))
-        asyncore.loop()
-
-    def handle_connect(self):
-        thread.start_new_thread(self.queue_read_loop, ())
-
-    def queue_read_loop(self):
-        while True:
-            line = self.oqueue.get().splitlines()[0][:500]
-            print ">>> %r" % line
-            self.push(line.encode('utf-8', 'replace') + '\r\n')
-
-    def collect_incoming_data(self, data):
-        self.buffer += data
-
-    def found_terminator(self):
-        line = self.buffer
-        self.iqueue.put(decode(line))
-        self.buffer = ''
-
-irc_prefix_rem = re.compile(r'(.*?) (.*?) (.*)').match
-irc_noprefix_rem = re.compile(r'()(.*?) (.*)').match
-irc_netmask_rem = re.compile(r':?([^!@]*)!?([^@]*)@?(.*)').match
-irc_param_ref = re.compile(r'(?:^|(?<= ))(:.*|[^ ]+)').findall
-
-
-class irc(object):
-    "handles the IRC protocol"
-    #see the docs/ folder for more information on the protocol
-
-    def __init__(self, network, nick, port=6667):
-        self.conn = crlf_tcp(network, port)
-        thread.start_new_thread(self.conn.run, ())
-        self.out = Queue.Queue() #responses from the server are placed here
-        # format: [rawline, prefix, command, params,
-        # nick, user, host, paramlist, msg]
-        self.nick(nick)
-        self.cmd("USER", ["skybot v0.01", "0", "bot"])
-        thread.start_new_thread(self.parse_loop, ())
-
-    def parse_loop(self):
-        while True:
-            msg = self.conn.iqueue.get()
-            if msg.startswith(":"): #has a prefix
-                prefix, command, params = irc_prefix_rem(msg).groups()
-            else:
-                prefix, command, params = irc_noprefix_rem(msg).groups()
-            nick, user, host = irc_netmask_rem(prefix).groups()
-            paramlist = irc_param_ref(params)
-            lastparam = ""
-            if paramlist and paramlist[-1].startswith(':'):
-                    lastparam = paramlist[-1][1:]
-            self.out.put([msg, prefix, command, params, nick, user, host,
-                    paramlist, lastparam])
-            if command == "PING":
-                self.cmd("PONG", [params])
-
-    def nick(self, nick):
-        self.cmd("NICK", [nick])
-
-    def join(self, channel):
-        self.cmd("JOIN", [":"+channel])
-
-    def msg(self, target, text):
-        self.cmd("PRIVMSG", [target, ":"+text])
-
-    def cmd(self, command, params=None):
-        if params:
-            self.send(command+' '+' '.join(params))
-        else:
-            self.send(command)
-
-    def send(self, str):
-        self.conn.oqueue.put(str)