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- From: dms50304@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Darkman)
- Subject: Re: Bots'n'vi
- References: <1ed13uINNmss@manuel.anu.edu.au> <1992Nov19.183714.21340@ugle.unit.no>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:44:46 GMT
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- gardabr@unix1 (Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen) writes:
- [blah deleted]
- >to herm's warning. You say Glurg could flood the channel because of the public
- >chatting. Well, I have not seen ONE BOT that is fool proof. Not even nickserv.
- >If you try to ...
- >/set exec_protection off
- >/on -notice nickserv /exec -msg nickserv@service.de help ;say $0-
- >/msg nickserv@service.de help
- >..voila! A flood!
- Big deal, you went way out of your way to flood yourself. meanwhile your
- talking bot can flood the whole net.
-
- >And in fact, I _am_ working on a bot now, programmed in C, which will register
- >the last message from a nick to compare with the newest, and also check the
- >time. If it clearly is a flood, the message will be ignored.
- >Well, this test can of course be omitted by changing between several nicks
- >and thereby giving each nick enough time, but I will be working on this, too.
- >So it's not me not listening. I have just proven that it is impossible to
- >do a bot as fool proof as you want it to be in 100% ircii.
-
- Just proves your lack of knowledge of ircII. Ever think of using $userhost()?
- You can check the time difference too. I'm not a bot advocator, but you
- clearly don't know what you are talking about. I bet you don't know how
- to use arrays in ircII either.
-
- --
- --- Daryn Sharp Darkman@uiuc.edu
-