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- From: troy@cbme.unsw.EDU.AU (Troy Rollo)
- Subject: Re: Bots, WarBots, Fun?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.214651.13161@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>
- Sender: news@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU
- Nntp-Posting-Host: plod.cbme.unsw.edu.au
- Organization: University of New South Wales
- References: <BxH577.B2M@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:46:51 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- From article <BxH577.B2M@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, by hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke):
- >>/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
-
- Well if you knew a tiny bit about the IRC protocol you would realise
- that it proved that the robot is fundamentally broken. There are
- rules built into the protocol to prevent this. ircII tries to enforce
- these, but it is possible to break them if you go out of your way to do
- so. A good rule of thumb is that if ircII prevents you from doing
- something the easy way, you should probably not be doing it at all.
-
- > 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?
-
- No, it demonstrates that the operator's abilities were shit. If herm
- had said that ircII was a piece of shit, you might have justification
- for making that comparison
- --
- __________________________________________________________________________
- troy@cbme.unsw.EDU.AU Overworked, overcommited and always multitasking.
-