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- From: mkwg9074@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (M. K. Weaver)
- Subject: Re: This is the point!! (was bots-how to get rid of them)
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 02:40:25 GMT
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- avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) writes:
-
- >>I don't know if the people advocating more bots are just ignorant of what
- >>is going on, or if they are just praying for the downfall of the irc
- >>network.
-
- God forbid...I don't think we are advocating more
- bots. I think the main advocating had been to make
- an alt.irc.bot and for the discussion of the future
- and useful purpose of bots.
-
- I guess I am considered someone who advocates bots.
- But I do think I have been clear on the type of bots
- I advocate. Those who/which further the expressiveness of
- people.
-
- Ever sit around a card table while some friends are
- playing cards. There is a type of talk and fun at
- this setting unlike any other setting <THANKS COR>
-
- IRC lends the possiblity for people to gather together
- to discuss similar interests. With certain bots it
- also allows for people to converse while participating
- in similar activities or even mutual activities such
- as playing Uno. <UNO! RULES!> I am sure there are other
- games that can be added. Some one has been asking for
- help with starting a game of Diplomacy <sp>. HAS ANYONE
- HELPED THIS PERSON?
-
- It has been pointed out that there are bot authors that
- have good intentions and that there are bot authors that
- have had bad intentions. Several ideas have been thrown
- out about what do do about all these bots... I don't know
- where this is going to end. I just hope that people
- who are not concerned with the communication that IRC
- allows for will just find another place to play. I don't
- wish them ill, I don't wish for them to not be able to
- enjoy themselves in their chosen way, I just wish they
- would exercise the respect and responsibility that all
- humans are capable of...since we know the bots can't.
-
- bfn,
- Monica
-
- --
- "When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it is only a minute.
- But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours.
- THAT'S RELATIVITY." (Albert Einstein)
- "My name is Monica. Got a minute?"
-