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- From: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
- Subject: Re: Useless Bots
- Message-ID: <avalon.712333341@coombs>
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- Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
- References: <1992Jul26.100255.8465@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> <Bs09A5.BnH@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 14:22:21 GMT
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- StarWatcher@uiuc.edu (StarWatcher) writes:
-
- >asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...) writes:
- >: oren@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Oren Kastner) was telling me...
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- >:>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....
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- Objection: I never use notify.
-
- And your problem with away's being sent back when a person is away is
- probably going to be a problem when people arent there and you get an
- error back instead.
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- avalon
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