While perhaps being mobile and away from your keyboard, allow AFKIM to put you right back in front of one — Away From Keyboard Instant Messenger (AFKIM) version 3.3.7. It’s a minor release from ZX-81, –

The server im.bitlbee.org is down and it doesn’t appear even in DNS. Unfortunately it is the default Bitlbee server used by afkim and there is no way to create a new account using afkim in any other Bitlbee server. (You have to do it by yourself using any IRC client).

In this new version of afkim you can specify in afkim.cfg file the public Bitlbee server / port you want to connect to. The afkim.cfg file try now to connect you to im.codemonkey.be when using a new account (you have to rename or remove the bitlbee.cfg file first).

Well that explains it.

Download:
AFKIM v3.3.7 (fw 1.50)
AFKIM v3.3.7 (cfw 3.xx/4.xx)
AFKIM source code

- source: ZX-81’s web site