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- From: mattm@digex.com (Matt Mosley)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: Waxing nostalgic without much of a point. Was: Re: Why people care so strongly about IRC (sorry, a bit long)
- Date: 15 Dec 1992 13:28:34 GMT
- Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
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- In article <1gc7f5INNkbb@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> gjm5@po.CWRU.Edu (Lord Maximilien of Myragorthia) writes:
- >intervention. Everyone on alt.irc keeps saying how the IRC is an anarchy,
- >and how the operators can't agree on what should be connected to what--
- >especially in the ol' U.S. of A. Rather than just asking everyone to come
- >to an agreement, we ought to pick someone to make a final decision. And
- >since we're probably never going to choose a single person to do this, a bot
- >would be the logical alternative. A bot would, in fact, be the only com-
- >pletely unbiased judge of things.
-
- Incorrect. A "bot" is only as unbiased as the programmer of it.
-
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- mattm@digex.com <> feet." - Queensryche
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