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- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!usage!news
- From: troy@cbme.unsw.EDU.AU (Troy Rollo)
- Subject: Re: Useless Bots
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.122609.1762@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>
- Sender: news@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU
- Nntp-Posting-Host: strummer.cbme.unsw.edu.au
- Organization: University of New South Wales
- References: <91963@bu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 12:26:09 GMT
- Lines: 17
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- From article <91963@bu.edu>, by jky@buengf.bu.edu (John Yu):
- > done its join by maintaining #hk itself, anything else is extra. Hey, we're
- > not getting paid for this work and no one asks for this service, so for the
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > bot-writers sake, be patient. Actually, HKServ has some built in user
- > functions in it yet the help screen hasn't been installed yet.
-
- So why impose it on people?
-
- IRC is a real time network. At any given moment it is there to serve the
- users online at that point in time. Channel reserving robots serve only
- to impose the will of somebody who is not online and thus ought not to
- have any genuine interest in what is happening there.
-
- --
- __________________________________________________________________________
- troy@cbme.unsw.EDU.AU Overworked, overcommited and always multitasking.
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