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- From: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
- Subject: Re: IRC STATS ?
- Message-ID: <avalon.712009949@coombs>
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- Sender: news@newshost.anu.edu.au
- Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
- References: <1992Jul24.180953.4073@ctr.columbia.edu>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 20:32:29 GMT
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- dougmc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Doug McLaren) writes:
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- [...]
- >This wouldn't even be terribly difficult to measure, as a bot could be written
- >that just does a /lusers <servername> for every server every, say 10 minutes,
- >and writes this information to a file, which we then analyze ... Maybe if I
- >get bored I'll write such a bot ... (kudos to the ircII writers, for making
- >such a versatile little client/language ...)
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- >Or, I could be wrong ...
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- That stats bot that thecure used to get all that info was written in perl :)
- Its pretty dumb BUT it does get the job done (sort of :). Its also probably
- a lot more efficient than similar in IrcII. *grin*.
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- av
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