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- From: herm@acme.etsu.edu (Herman H. Fredriksson)
- Subject: Re: Bots, WarBots, Fun?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov14.045418.16729@ra.oc.com>
- Summary: since when is "bots, warbots, fun" a question?
- Keywords: bots, are, lame.
- Sender: usenet@ra.oc.com
- Organization: East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas, USA
- References: <1992Nov10.103304.25105@ugle.unit.no> <1e1pgeINNfvp@manuel.anu.edu.au> <BxotEt.IB0@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 04:54:18 GMT
- Lines: 45
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- mkwg9074@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (M. K. Weaver) writes:
- >titus@coombs.anu.edu.au (titus chiu) writes:
-
- >>didn't you say irc was your home earlier? and when you are not home, you aint
- >>there to talk to anyone. This is a perfect example of an absolutely useless
- >>bot that the 'programmer' claims to have use for.
-
- > [..far fetched stuff about trying to censor science fiction..;)]
-
- > YEAH YEAH far fetched...but what are you wanting to
- > do stifle everyone's imagination?
-
- Lets face facts, it doesnt require much immagination to invent something
- for which there are already in excess of 200 of on irc. Most of them
- are copied from some other loser anyway.
-
- > Oh on a practical note...Is this bot then Gard's
- > personal <as opposed to impersonal> answering machine/
- > representative on the channel. When/If view phones
- > become wide spread...wouldn't you want a representative
- > of you to answer your phone?
-
- Answering machines are impersonal. eg. You feel bored, you think to
- yourself, hey.. I'll call gard on the phone and have a nice chat.
- And his answering machine answers.. do you then have a 45 minute
- chat with his answering machine? Or you just hang up?
- When/IF view phones become wide spread (they have them already in
- Singapore ;), I'll want to answer the phone myself if I'm there
- and let them have an engaged tone if I'm not. View phones calls
- cost money, and I dont want the poor sucker to waste his time
- looking at some cardboard impersonal cutout of me and some
- lame message.
-
- same far fectched disclaimer as you had applies to the above.
-
- > bfn <bots for now>
- > Monica
-
- herm
- (say NO to unattended bots)
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