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- From: dougmc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Doug McLaren)
- Subject: Re: Useless Bots, Vanity Ops ?
- Organization: Doug's House of Disco
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- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 21:26:38 GMT
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- In article <Bs0HoA.27y@acsu.buffalo.edu> masdough@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Dough the Demented) writes:
-
- >For those who give a damn.. I've "started" a bot and it isn't in IRCII.
-
- Hmmm ... I get it ... Perl bots are ok. IRCII bots must die on sight. (nothing
- personal, Mr. Demented Dough ... I'm not saying that you believe this, but
- other people have certainly implied it, and you felt the need to defend your
- bot against it, so ... )
-
- One can do a lot with IRCII scripts... I'm not referring to lines such as this:
-
- /on -public "* *DumbBot*dumb*" /say I am NOT dumb, $0 !!!!! ;/kick $C $0
- (Way to go Baloo! It's amazing how many bots do stuff like this ... :)
-
- but to bigger and better things. IRCII scripts are excellent for doing IRC
- related things ... The IRC client may not be the most effecient way of doing
- something, CPU cycles-wise, but who really cares? Even most IRCII script bots
- use a tiny fraction of their machine's CPU cycles (memory usage is a bit worse,
- though ... here a IRCII client seems to take about 700k of real memory, no
- matter what it is doing ...)
-
- An IRCII script's main strength is this: It's quick to write. I don't know
- Perl, but I imagine that nobody can write a bot in it as fast as somebody can
- write a bot in IRCII. And IRCII can do lots of things ... more than just auto
- ops and auto-greets. Look at ZBot -- I haven't seen him around in a while, but
- if I recall correctly, he's written in IRCII scripts ... and he did lots of
- nifty things. My bot, Tubster isn't quite as versitile, but he's getting
- better.
-
- But are the bots useful? I like to think so. Tubster is a channel server, for
- the channel #hottub. A vanity channel, as called by somebody, I forget who.
- My Pet Channel? Somehow I don't think so. I have an O-line, but I don't run
- a server. Therefore I am probably called a Vanity Op. So be it. I certainly
- don't need the O-line to use IRC ... but there are times that it comes in
- handy. When people get in Kill wars and squit off parts of the net ... being
- able to reconnect them comes in quite handy. When people come in to a channel
- to harass other people, or when they have their bots doing commands like
- /exec -msg Innocent_Person cat core to people, /kill comes in handy. True,
- /ignore works, but when these people start changing nicks and user-ids to avoid
- the ignores, it gets out of hand. And /kill doesn't really stop anybody ... it
- just slows them down a bit. But it does show them that you mean business. I
- like to think I'm a responsible vanity op.
-
- True, I could hang out on #twilight_zone, and be an elite. I probably know
- enough about how IRC works to fit in. It's just that I prefer channels where
- people actually talk :)
-
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