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- From: herm@acme.etsu.edu (Herman H. Fredriksson)
- Subject: Re: Bots, WarBots, Fun?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.091812.6010@ra.oc.com>
- Keywords: bots, are, lame.
- Sender: usenet@ra.oc.com
- Organization: East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas, USA
- References: <1992Nov9.115758.15047@ugle.unit.no> <1992Nov9.212604.25539@ra.oc.com> <BxH577.B2M@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 09:18:12 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke) writes:
- >herm@merlin.etsu.edu (Herman H. Fredriksson) writes:
-
- >>/on public "* *re*" say say hi, Glurg;say say hi, Glurg
- >>then type:
- >>say hi, Glurg
-
- >>And watch the floods increase from 1,2,4,8,16,32,etc... messages. Great
- >>stuff Mr Gard, your stupid piece of shit WeenieBot floods the crap
- >>out of the channel.
-
- >What does this prove? It's a "piece of shit" because it can be placed in an
- >infinite loop by any malicious person? That can be done with almost any
- >program... I once had a shell reading from and writing to the same file,
- >which grew to over 10 megs before i kill-9'd the process. Does this make
- >/bin/csh a piece of shit?
-
- The difference between your stupid shell script mistake and this bot is
- that your mistake is not pouring out heaps of crap over the network.
- Regardless, there are measures one can take against bots flooding, and that
- is to observe a very simple protocol that an automated client answer
- only to a privmsg (yep.. things said on channels are privmsg's), and reply
- with a notice. Simple aint it? Stops all these infinite loop floods.
-
- as to /bin/csh being a piece of shit, thats a personal opinion, I know
- some bash/ksh users who would agree with those sentiments.
-
- >It was I who created an enormous file, not the author of /bin/csh. Likewise,
- >you were responsible for flooding the channel, not the bot.
-
- Nope, I am only as much to blame as the bot. But at least I was around
- to stop my automated client. Just as you were around to clear up
- after your escapade.
-
- herm
- (say NO! to unattended bots)
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