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- From: dougmc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Doug McLaren)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: A new (very simple) bot solution
- Message-ID: <85492@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 06:55:19 GMT
- References: <Dweiss-031292184946@chiba.hughes.american.edu>> <SCOTT.92Dec4140418@sfi.santafe.edu> <avalon.724248710@coombs>
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- In article <avalon.724248710@coombs> avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) writes:
- >scott@sfi.santafe.edu (Scott D. Yelich) writes:
- >
- >>*** #hotsex *\*!*nmsu*@*
- >
- >>gotta love those backslashes! The last one is intriguing.
- >
- >Have to wonder about people sometimes...regexs aren't used by the server
- >for pattern matching on bans, just *'s and ?'s...
-
- regex's have nothing to do w/ it (at the server level, anyways) ...
-
- Somebody was fond of giving their floodbots names that contained \'s so
- when people tried to /ignore them, their client thought they were trying
- to quote the next character, and the net effect was that you couldn't
- ignore the bot unless you understood this.
-
- Basically, ALL these bots had \'s in their nicks and usernames, so this
- ban was fairly effective ...
-
- Have to wonder about people sometimes ... yes, gotta agree with that.
-
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