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- From: thecure@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (the cure)
- Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: *die* monitor.ece.uiuc.edu
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- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
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- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 08:16:13 GMT
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- In <26573@life.ai.mit.edu> gwydion@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Mercenary Programmer) writes:
-
- >In article <9220819.18246@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> thecure@ee.mu.OZ.AU (the cure) writes:
- >>Can someone explain "exactly" why monitor.ece.uiuc.edu is on the net.
- >>
- >>Apparently it's just to take stats. This is easily done with an automated bot.
-
- >It is? Would you care to write the aforementioned automated bot? A
- >server will automatically receive all appropriate messages; all the
- >monitor code has to do is to receive it. The same is not true for
- >a bot.
-
- Yes, I would care to write the aforementioned bot. Wait, hang about.
- I have. Silly me, it was so trivial I forgot. It's been used by avalon
- and phone now for a while, and I post the odd stat thing here from it as were..
-
- What wrong with getting the bot to do this..
-
- [1] nick statbot
- [2] user blah blah blah blah
- [3] links * *
- [4] (collect all the links)
- [5] search for '*' in the collection
- [6] links '*.whatever' '*.whatever' (ie - do a links from the the machine *)
- [7] repeat from 4 until no more '*' in the collection
-
-
- >>I am only whinging, cause it hangs when you try and do any server stuff with it.
- >>
- >>(ie - /stats L monitor.ece.uiuc.edu does nothing.)
-
- >It doesn't hang; the message is transmitted. Only monitor doesn't
- >care, so it sends no messages back. Ever telnetted to a server,
-
- "so it sends no messages back" - Duh - I forgot, I am meant to be
- psychic ain't I? Like, when I say "Do you do anything" , and I
- don't get anything back, it's stupid of me to think that it's hanging
- right? I mean, shit, where do I get off thinking that it has worked
- when there is NO visable evidence it has. (like, umm, oh christ,
- it's not even worth bothering to explain this one. - If you killed
- someone because they were idle (ie - THEY DIDN'T APPEAR TO BE DOING
- ANYTHING) - I spose that "would be justified"?
-
- The initial point I tried to make with the server listings.
-
- THERE ARE A LOT OF SERVERS ON THE NET THAT SERVER LITTLE OR NO PURPOSE.
-
- This server is just such one of them. It server -nothing- to the
- irc community that is needed. Your server that it hangs off
- may well be justified (I haven't looked it up) - but this
- doover does nothing.
-
- blah blah blah ,etc, etc, etc.
-
- >pretending to be a server yourself, and send /notify messages back
- >to people who /trace you? Quite interesting, actually. One has
- >to be a fast typist - or a good programmer. However, that is a
- >side note - monitor is just a receptacle for messages, it has no
- >reason to respond.
-
- >Gwydion.
-
- Yeah, no shit.
-
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- Always question authority.
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