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- From: thecure@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (matthew aardvarkious)
- Subject: Re: [*] Irc Statistics (Idle)
- Message-ID: <thecure.721878833@munagin>
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- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- References: <9231622.8711@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <83677@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 01:53:53 GMT
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- dougmc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Doug McLaren) writes:
-
- >In article <9231622.8711@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> thecure@ee.mu.OZ.AU (matthew aardvarkious) writes:
- >>
- >> (1) 67.15690% 2 hours +-------------------------------+
- >I assume (hope) you mean LESS than two hours here ...
-
- Yepo.
-
- >>*** CTCP FINGER reply from toocool: Xavier O'Neal,STORMS
- >>+ 10,(515)296-9253,(515)296-9253,Zay (toocool@pv7b86.vincent.iastate.edu)
- >>+ Idle 1171989 seconds
-
- >A few points to make here ...
-
- > 1) judging from the ctcp finger replies, most ircII bots are always idle.
- > You may feel that this is appropriate, or maybe not, but that's not the
- > point. 'idle' here means time since the last key was pressed. Most bots
- > don't use a keyboard to control themselves ...
- > Whether these bots are *useful* or not depends on the bot and on who
- > you ask.
- > Basically, ctcp finger is a good way to find ircII bots.
-
- I did do this actually. Approximately 60% of the bots on IRC are IRCII
- clients. I accidently deleted the list, and didn't bother again.
-
- I will have to wait for 2.2 to get a proper idle time though.
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