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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: Useless Bots
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.123649.5240@aston.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 12:36:49 GMT
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- s6883289@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Peter Hawkins) writes:
- : In article <91963@bu.edu> jky@buengf.bu.edu (John Yu) writes:
- : >HKServ is not a noise maker, just an op-bot. HKServ's main purpose is
- : >to auto-op ppl from a limited list of trusted users who can maintain the
- : >channel. Of course, a major channel needs ops who are responsible to
- : >watch over the channel, especially from obnoxious users. If there were no
- : >bots in #hk, or even irc in the whole, then irc would be an unorganized
- : >hell-hole for communication.
- Hold on theres the 'needs ops' claim again.
- :
- : most of the problematic channels are those that exist without a well-defined
- : purpose. you rarely see much problems in #initgame, #warez #hack because
- : these channels exist for a specific purpose, you know what to do when you get
- Also people who are _NOT_ interested are (hopefully) disuaded from joining.
- : there and their respective users don't like to see you doing unrelated things.
- : but in the case of #hk, #asians, #taiwan, you simply don't know what are you
- : supposedly to say there. are they for chatting? for social discussion? for free
- : hugs and kisses? heck, i am currently banned from #taiwan because i tried to
- : start a taiwanese language discussion on #taiwan.. :)
- This is silly...
- Do you mean you have been banned by the resident bot?
- : from my experince, the _only_ channel justifies having a bot is #initgame. :)
- : logic: i love you!
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