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- From: gardabr@unix1 (Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen)
- Subject: Re: Bots, WarBots, Fun?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.114130.12007@ugle.unit.no>
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- References: <SCOTT.92Nov10145001@sfi.santafe.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 11:41:30 GMT
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- Scott D. Yelich (scott@sfi.santafe.edu) wrote:
- : >: >could agree to have only ONE bot with that and that function, and so on,
- : >: There is no agreement. That is why we have bot wars.
- : >Of course there is no agreement - now. That is because the bot programmers
- : >don't have a forum in which they can get the agreement. Whilst on IRC, they
- : >are more interrested in debugging their bot or talking social stuff with
- : >others. A newsgroup like alt.irc.bots would work fine for that.
- :
- : Hardly. Ok...you tell me how to resolve this problem, and then maybe
- : it will work. Who would run this one bot? EVERYONE would want to run
- : it so they can say it's their bot. If someone else runs it it's no fun.
- : Why do you think so many people have them instead of sharing them?
- :
- : I'll run it. I have a "bot" that anyone can telnet to and give a
- : nickname to launch the bot. It's one program. Everyone gets the same
- : code. Hell, you don't even have to think-- just telnet in, give
- : user@host and what channel you want to be OP on... and boom, another
- : bot is born.
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- Tell me about it!
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- : Scott
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- Gard
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