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- From: gwydion@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Mercenary Programmer)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: Why people care so strongly about IRC (sorry, a bit long)
- Date: 12 Dec 1992 02:16:43 GMT
- Organization: /etc/organization
- Lines: 21
- Message-ID: <1gbi2bINNivr@life.ai.mit.edu>
- References: <1g5r5aINN1hk@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Dec10.065657.16981@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- In article <1992Dec10.065657.16981@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) writes:
-
- >The problem you didn't address is that all these bot wars and mode wars, etc
- >may _already_ have an adverse effect on the performance of IRC overall. But
- >then those who participate in this type of behavior wouldn't give a shit any
- >way. After all IRC is just a toy and should be treated as such. Obviously
- >nothing productive can ever be accomplished on irc so why bother. Anyone
- >who 'cares' must be hopelessly out of touch with reality and they too should
- >remember that IRC is only a toy. It is every person's god-given right to
- >have their own personal, opping/deopping/moding/flooding/banning bot cause
- >after all, it's the other guys' responsibility.
-
-
- Let me ask you a question, Daemon...
-
- Have you ever talked to the bot owners about the
- problems their bots cause? I'm not being sarcastic;
- but it is obvious you've already made up your mind
- about them. I'm just wondering why.
-
- Gwydion.
-