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- From: asamonte@hertz.elee.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: Bots, WarBots, Fun?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov07.012124.124606@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 01:21:24 GMT
- References: <1992Nov6.084134.17493@ugle.unit.no>
- Sender: news@zeus.calpoly.edu
- Organization: Nothing worth mentioning...
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- gardabr@unix1 (Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen) was telling me...
- >> I still feel alt.irc.bot would be useful (...)
- >
- >I could not agree more. All the time, I get MSGs from people wondering,
- >how do you make a bot? Can I have the source of your BOT (Glurg, btw).
- >Really irritating when you go to IRC to communicate rather than go'n
- >teach others to write bots.
- >
- >Also, programming techniques could be shared, so that all bots would be
- >optimized accordingly, and we could have fewer bots because bot programmers
- >could agree to have only ONE bot with that and that function, and so on,
- >if you get my drift...
-
- You're really fooling yourself if you think that would decrease the
- number of bots. Most bots are very vanity orientated.
- IF someone else's bot has that function they want theirs to do it too!
-
- I don't see how that would reduce the number of bots.
-
- Take a look at #hottub or #hotsex. Doug made 2 robots (which
- couldhave easily been combined into one) to be the 'official'bots for
- those channels. Did it decrease the number of bots there? NO.
-
- -Alex
-