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- From: asamonte@hertz.elee.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: Bots, WarBots, Fun?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.045536.146979@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 04:55:36 GMT
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- scott@sfi.santafe.edu (Scott D. Yelich) was telling me...
- > >: >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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- But that makes more than one bot silly. Bad Scott, no donut.
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- -Alex
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