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- From: herm@coombs.anu.edu.au (Herman H. Fredriksson)
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- Subject: Re: I want my own bot
- Date: 5 Nov 1992 05:06:00 GMT
- Organization: Coombs Computing Unit, Australian National University, Canberra.
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- In article <Bx5I77.Mp7@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lis450ak@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (M.K.Weaver ;)) writes:
- > I keep hearing about "baloobot" etc.
- > I have to do a paper for my telecommunications
- > class. I am using the "bot" issue as my basis.
- > Would someone please give me the background
- > information? Basically what do you mean about
-
- A bot is an automated client. The term "bot" appeared much later than
- the original automated clients or "automatons". Among the first and probably
- the most useful of these were NickServ, and jircc.
-
- Now there are multitues of worthless "automatons" whose sole purpose is to
- "keep and give and maintain channel modes", and to be an extention of the
- users ego.
-
- > baloo <I assume it was a bot someone created
- > at sometime> Please make your response as detailed
- > as possible.
-
- I believe that Baloobear is the nick of a guy who had such a "bot" which used
- the nickname "baloobot". He wrote a document which showed people how to
- start a "bot" It explained simple things like /on to beginners. He made
- the fatal mistake of including the script for his own bot at the bottom,
- which the weenies coppied and used in true computer science student
- tradition ;) . The document also promoted VERY BAD automaton behaviours,
- one of which was the:
-
- -- begin included shit from botdoc --
- /on msg commands allow your bot to respond to /msg messages that
- people send to it. The format is similar to /on public :
- /on msg "* help*" /exec -msg $0 cat HelpFile.txt
- ...will, when someone types "/msg BalooBot help", msg back to
- -- end included shit from botdoc --
-
- And for this he has payed dearly with his nickname being
- splattered about places such as this whenever a mindless vanity bot is
- discussed.
-
- see if you cant get a copy of the "satanic verses", err. I mean the
- bot.doc :-)
-
- > thanks for your time,
- > a student
-
- <hmmm.. this posting reminds me of someone else who posts from uiuc..just
- cant remember who :)>
-
- herm
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