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- From: herm@acme.etsu.edu (Herman H. Fredriksson)
- Subject: Re: Supidity of the Lambs !
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.004204.23787@ra.oc.com>
- Keywords: bots, are, lame
- Sender: usenet@ra.oc.com
- Organization: East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas, USA
- References: <1992Nov9.214704.25878@ra.oc.com> <1992Nov10.131651.29221@ugle.unit.no>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:42:04 GMT
- Lines: 61
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- gardabr@unix1 (Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen) writes:
- >Herman H. Fredriksson (herm@merlin.etsu.edu) wrote:
- >: gardabr@unix1 (Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen) writes:
- >: >: [..Ruben asks DO YOU NEED IT?..]
- >: > [..says it allows to keep messages (reinvents wheel)..]
- >: [..herm asks you to use NOTESERV..]
- >I have tried noteserv... just that I have never actually managed to make him
- >work. And if he won't work for me, well, then I guess I can't use him.
-
- /msg noteserv@service.de help
-
- if its a little slow, give it a chance, this is a good/popular bot.
-
- >: > [..talks about vanity cutesy impersonal comments..]
- >: [..no matter how much you try.. its impersonal..]
- >The comments have been very carefully been thought out, and can sometimes
- >surprise the users of the channel, since the comment usually fits so
- >perfectly.
-
- C'mon, cant you see its impersonal? Predictable after the first few times?
-
- [..assorted bs deleted..]
-
- >: >: [..stuff about the growing number of vanitybots..]
- [..more shit..]
-
- >: State information about channels are sent to all servers. If a bot sends
- >: repeated mode commands, or kick, or topic, or other flood commands
- >: (ones which are probagated to all servers), it affects everyone.
-
- >Glurg does not flood unless you make him flood.
-
- or another bot built the same way as Glurg.
-
- >: >: \Ruben.
- >: >: (Say NO to unatended bots)
- >: >But my dear Ruben! The whole point is that the bot is supposed to make it on
- >: >their own. Otherwise, there would be no point in having them. Say NO to
- >: >attended bots!
- >:
- >: but the point is, that lots of bots can't make it on their own. Yours
- >: is a classic example (see previous post).
- >My bot works fine, as long as you don't abuse him intentionally.
-
- your bot breaks good bot ettiquette, how many times do I have to
- drum that into your thick skull? I can quite innocently (following
- your lame logic) create a bot who does stupid weenie cutesy
- comments on a channel, and this would engage in botsex with yours until
- it floods the shit out of the channel? Comprende? Good.
-
- >: herm
- >: (say NO to unattended bots)
- >Gard (still without any disclaimer)
-
- herm
- (say NO to unattended bots)
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