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- From: gardabr@unix1 (Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen)
- Subject: Keep the flood.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.115138.27036@ugle.unit.no>
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Organization: University of Trondheim, Norway
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- References: <1992Nov9.212604.25539@ra.oc.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 11:51:38 GMT
- Lines: 69
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- Herman H. Fredriksson (herm@merlin.etsu.edu) wrote:
- : So glurg is your channel reserver, which makes sure YOU have op on YOUR
- : channel now does it? Hey, why not just leave YOURSELF on that channel
- : with no /ons but with yourself left as chanop? Wont that be as prestigious?
- :
- Keeping myself on the channel like that is not very easily done without keeping
- a terminal busy, and I cannot do that here. Also, the ops on #24892 are not
- reserved only me, but also MelissaX and Squasha. Glurg will also tell me
- when these arrive to #24892, as long as I'm logged on - even if I shouldn't
- be on IRC at the time.
-
- : >Also, earlier on, Glurg walked freely around on different channels commenting
- : >things, responding to whatever the people said, and in most cases, it would
- : >take quite a while or a /whois Glurg to discover that he was a bot. Now, that
- : >need a little more programming technique than a /on join Gard mode $C +o $0
- :
- : If you think a automated client responding to things said on a channel
- : by sending some message back to the channel is optimal or good robot
- : ettiquete, you are sadly mistaken.
- :
- Guess why I removed that part of the source.
-
- : BTW, I just went onto irc to take a look at your automated client.
- :
- : Try this Mr Gard,
- :
- : /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.
- :
- : I guess if you were there when something like that happens you can
- : kill your bot, or try to disable its bad functions, but you werent there!
- :
- : herm.
- : (say NO to unattended bots)
- : --
- : -- Herman Fredriksson -------- <herm@merlin.etsu.edu> ------ _ ---------
- : -- IRC Politician ----------- <herm@coombs.anu.edu.au> --- _| ~-, ------
- : -- East Texas State University --------------------------- \ _) ------
- : -- Commerce, Texas, USA -- "Everthing's Bigger'n'Better" -- \( -------
-
- Try this, mr Herman
-
- /on -msg * msg nickserv@service.de help
-
- and then
-
- /msg nickserv@service.de help
-
- Now watch the flood. Does this mean that nickserv should be removed?
-
- Now try this:
-
- /on -list * list
-
- and then
-
- /list
-
- Now have some fun for yourself, trying to figure out why the hell IRC has
- been so badly programmed.
-
- /Gard
-