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- From: troy@cbme.unsw.EDU.AU (Troy Rollo)
- Subject: Bots - how to get rid of them
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.003329.6162@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>
- Sender: news@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU
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- Organization: Centre for Biomedical Engineering, University of NSW
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 00:33:29 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- The first thing you should do if you want to get rid of bots on IRC,
- is send a flame to the champion of bots a year ago, danielce@ee.mu.oz.au
- with contents something like the following:
-
- I would like to thank you for the great contribution
- you have made to IRC. Your defence of channel bots has
- resulted in a much improved chat environment and a better
- IRC for all. I would also like to thank you for destroying
- the spirit of others who have so clearly never done
- anything for IRC. Your actions are clearly selfless and
- admirable.
-
- Then, when you have done that, find the mailing address of every single
- bot that you can, and mail a message to the owner of that bot with the
- subject "Please remove your robot from IRC", and the content:
-
- "In the interests of a better IRC environment, please remove
- your IRC robot from IRC. Thank you for your cooperation."
-
- Everybody who thinks bots are a nuisance should do this immediately.
- Keep a list of the bot owners you have sent this to, then, a week later,
- send a flame to each person on that list with a robot still on IRC.
- Send the list around to your friends, family, dog, cat and canary, and
- get them to send flames too. For each message you send out, send another
- congratulatory message to danielce@ee.mu.oz.au for good measure.
-
- After a few weeks of this treatment, the bot owners will probably have
- had enough and give up. BTW, if danielce doesn't like the idea of having
- this inflicted on him, he should have thought of that before inflicting
- hundreds of bots on the net. Ditto for the bot owners. My answer to
- any of their complaints is "You made your bed, lie in it."
- --
- __________________________________________________________________________
- troy@cbme.unsw.EDU.AU Overworked, overcommited and always multitasking.
-