Now that I've gotten Bebot up and working, I have one other project.  I've read through the forums to see what I could find regarding linking the bots, but I only came across these two posts:
http://bebot.link/index.php/topic,362.0.html
http://bebot.link/index.php/topic,296.0.html

From what I gather from these Bebot, out of the box, does not support communications with IGN bots, nor does it handle links with multiple bots.  However, both of these posts are several months old.  So my question is, is this still the case? I know little about programming and even less about php and some of the codeing here seems pretty involved.  I'll dive in if I have to, but it would be best if it wasn't necessary.   

Yes, an IRC channel.  A simple and elegent solution.  Unfortunately, the statement, "IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat" is pretty much the sum total of my knowledge on that subject.   

Looks like I'm diving in.  Wish me luck