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- From: StarWatcher@uiuc.edu (StarWatcher)
- Subject: Re: Useless Bots
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 23:29:04 GMT
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- dougmc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Doug McLaren) writes:
- : StarWatcher@uiuc.edu writes:
- : >Then the channel would not be a reasonably "open" one. Is there a way
- : >to code a bot to "invite all people except those who have been jerks
- : >on this channel before, or who have harassed regular channel users
- : >in /msg's under various nicks"? That kind of bot would, IMHO, be too
- : >cumbersome to write and maintain to be practical.
- : Not difficult at all ...
-
- [description of a bot with different access levels for #hottub regulars
- elided]
-
- That kind of bot would be no problem, I agree. However, let me show
- you the lines that preceeded my question:
-
- StarWatcher@uiuc.edu writes:
- :asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...) writes:
- ::StarWatcher@uiuc.edu writes:
-
- ::>I don't see any problems with bots with invite/op
- ::>lists of 50-60 people for one "regular" channel, especially if the bot
- ::>is being updated fairly frequently, and if the human channel ops are
- ::>willing to let new people on channel fairly regularly. The bots in between
- ::>*shrug* I haven't had to deal with them.
- ::Your main argument for the robot is for invite purposes? Then why doesn't
- ::it jsut do that instead of oping people? What's the point there?
-
- also, after my question I explained some of the problems of having an invite-
- only channel without a bot that opped at least some channel regulars.
-
- After going back and thinking about it, and after reading your article,
- I do admit that a bot could be written to do more detailed channel managing
- (/inviting all, and allowing trusted channel regulars to maintain a bot's
- no-invite list and have the bot /kick offensive users off channel), but
- that still doesn't address some of the difficulties of having a major
- invite-only channel without having an op-bot: what to do if, through
- some combination of the invite-bot (if any), net.death, ops signing
- off without spreading op, and/or having away ops, you are left with
- the invite-only channel being (essentially) op-less.
-
- Yes, it can be handled. But life is certainly a heckuvalot easier
- on invite-only channels with invite and op-bots...as opposed to
- just invite bots, or no bots at all.
-
- The point of my past couple of articles being: many of the op-bots are
- NOT useless bots....if they are banned from irc, there will prolly be
- a lot of cyborgs (human ircers with bot scripts in their .ircrc's)
- popping up all over the net.
-
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