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- From: StarWatcher@uiuc.edu (StarWatcher)
- Subject: Re: Useless Bots
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- Organization: UIUC Actuarial Science Program
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 16:46:51 GMT
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- asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...) writes:
- : oren@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Oren Kastner) was telling me...
-
- :>That wasn't my point. My point was that someone such as Avalon (and Trillian)
- :>have an process running and logged into IRC 24 hrs/day. You can't say a bot
- :>wastes CPU cycles and bandwidth because more than likely a bot generates less
- :>traffic than say Avalon's process!
- :
- :Not really, considering when they are /away their connections don't do
- :anything. They don't make any mode changes, they don't spew out files
- :or anything. Sounds like a lot less traffic to me.
-
- Hmmmm....wouldn't regular /notify checks use CPU cycles, and isn't there
- a little effort required by the /away person's host machine to "display"
- incoming messages, or sever messages (if usermode is +s)? I really doubt
- that many of the bots out there are usermode +s, or have /notify files
- (but I could be wrong...), while many of the /away real people are/do....
-
- : Granted this might be a bad exmaple, but I would rather listen to a real
- : person talk than a robot's limited capacity.
-
- *shrug* Dunno about that....there are many folks on IRC for whom it is safe
- for me to say, I'd rather listen to a bot than them. Sometimes I can't help
- but wonder if an IRCbot's IQ is higer than a net.geek's. (1/2 of a :-)
-
- : Channel opping robots do channel ops a lot more than avalon is bound to do
- : /whois's on you. File spewing robots dump lots more text
- : than avalon is bound to generate.
-
- In that case, I'd say that those bots have a better reason than avalon to
- be on the net. They are actually doing something. :-)
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