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- From: gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
- Subject: Re: yes or no? (bot deopping)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.181404.17142@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:14:04 GMT
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- >>>The /kick idea is interesting, but I'm not completely fond of it. An
- >>>alternative (in the one chan-op scheme especially) would be to give /kick
- >>>a few more teeth -- add an automatic ban as an after-effect of a kick.
- >>
- >>This would be a great (and easy) feature to implement in a client.
- >>Don't clutter the server.
- >
- >Yes, but I could get a few bots flooding you real bad, so bad that while
- >you are in fact ignoring them, but they start lagging you more and more,
- >and more, and eventually you start missing pings. It's really quite easy
- >to do ... (and I've seen it done ...)
-
- How would a ban change that? Welcome to the non-sequitor hour on
- alt.irc. If you see this done, I'd suggest that you write Scott's boss
- and complain.
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