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- From: titus@coombs.anu.edu.au (titus chiu)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: Bots, WarBots, Fun?
- Date: 14 Nov 1992 01:49:38 GMT
- Organization: Coombs Computing Unit, Australian National University, Canberra.
- Lines: 52
- Message-ID: <1e1lviINNfc9@manuel.anu.edu.au>
- References: <1992Nov7.023211.6142@ra.oc.com> <1992Nov9.115758.15047@ugle.unit.no>
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- gardabr@unix1 (Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen) writes:
- >Herman H. Fredriksson (herm@merlin.etsu.edu) wrote:
- >: gardabr@unix1 (Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen) writes:
-
- >: > [..people message this dude becos they want to have a whizbang bot too..]
- >
- >Do you know how annoying that is?
-
- ever heard of /ignore? or u can even use your 'programming technique' to
- do a /on -msg "* *how*make*bot*" /comment eh?
-
- [..whole heap of crap about how great his bot is deleted..]
-
- >Also, earlier on, Glurg walked freely around on different channels commenting
- >things, responding to whatever the people said, and in most cases, it would
- >take quite a while or a /whois Glurg to discover that he was a bot. Now, that
- >need a little more programming technique than a /on join Gard mode $C +o $0
-
- oh w0w, he discovered /on public, good on ya.
-
- >Surprised by that? Optimizing could be like... having an assigned variable
- >containing all the channels the bot is supposed to visit. and than just move
- >a pointer every time he's supposed to visit a new channel, rather than having
- >24892 on timer statements.
-
- optimized should mean using much less CPU than an average ircII script bot
- (using less memory would be good too)
-
- >: >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.
-
- maybe you weenies can join #makebots?
-
- >: herm
- >: (say NO to unattended bots)
- >
- >say YES for better and more intelligent bots.
-
- titus
- (say NO to unattended bots)
-
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