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- From: herm@acme.etsu.edu (Herman H. Fredriksson)
- Subject: Re: Keep the flood.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.123734.7967@ra.oc.com>
- Keywords: bots, are, lame.
- Sender: usenet@ra.oc.com
- Organization: East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas, USA
- References: <1992Nov9.212604.25539@ra.oc.com> <1992Nov10.115138.27036@ugle.unit.no>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 12:37:34 GMT
- Lines: 59
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- gardabr@unix1 (Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen) writes:
- >Herman H. Fredriksson (herm@merlin.etsu.edu) wrote:
-
- [..stuff deleted..]
-
- >: 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)
-
- >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?
-
- I tried it, I didnt get flooded. You see.. nickserv replies to my
- message with a NOTICE, not a PRIVMSG, and luckily for dorks like you
- who might try it, "/on msg "* *" /msg" conveniently converts your
- reply to a notice so you too will be obeying good automated client
- ettiquette.
-
- And guess what? NickServ doesnt need to give out chanops either.
- NickServ should NOT be removed. It obeys good bot ettiquete. Well
- it does give out unsolicited messages :-)
-
- >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.
-
- Why bother with the last one? It will only affect me and the server
- I connect to (same machine/unix socket). Your PRIVMSG for PRIVMSG
- bot floods the channel, and from here to norway passess thru
- quite a few servers.
-
- >/Gard
-
- herm
- (say NO! to unattended bots)
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