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- From: titus@coombs.anu.edu.au (titus chiu)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: Supidity of the Lambs !
- Date: 14 Nov 1992 01:56:44 GMT
- Organization: Coombs Computing Unit, Australian National University, Canberra.
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- Message-ID: <1e1mcsINNfgd@manuel.anu.edu.au>
- References: <1992Nov6.101014.20872@alf.uib.no> <1992Nov9.122243.15596@ugle.unit.no>
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- those of the Australian National University.
-
- gardabr@unix1 (Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen) writes:
- >Ove Ruben R Olsen (buboo@alf.uib.no) wrote:
- >: How much have YOU been on IRC vs your BOT been on IRC to keep YOUR channel ?
- >: This is a essential question every channel keeping bot writer should
- >: considder. Said in another word: DO you NEED it ?
- >
- >Yes, I know Glurg is on 24 hours a day. This is because some of the people I
- >know do not have email capabilities, and Glurg works as a communication channel
- >between me and them, as we usually are not there at the same time. Yes, I need
- >it.
-
- ever heard of noteserv or msgserv? (does msgserv run anymore?)
-
- >Also, due to Glurg's sometimes nice comments, he gives some atmosphere to
- >my channel. The people using the channel likes him, and so, people not using
- >the channel really shouldn't care.
-
- oh so you need a companian because you are a social misfit and you see fit
- to waste net resources so you can have an automated script give you 'some'
- atmospher? real good there.. oh you call the bot 'him' as well eh?
-
- >: Afraid that someone may "steal" you precious channel ? get real :-)
- >See above.
- >
- >: Neither channels nor nicknames are owned. This is IRC, not your home :-)
- >Ehum.... IRC is my home... 8)=
-
- so? irc has an average of about 1000 users, if 30% of them calls irc home,
- we'd have 300 bots. (its getting there..)
-
- >Well... the /on join <nick> op bots could all be put in one megabot. But to
-
- no, on join nick op bots could call be killed.
-
- >do this, bot programmers would need to cooperate - which they would do with
- >alt.irc.bots. Also, as mentioned above, if the users of a channel don't mind
-
- i doubt very much that by creating a newsgroup people would co-operate.
-
- >: \Ruben.
- >: (Say NO to unatended bots)
- >/Gard
-
- titus
- (say NO to unattended bots)
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