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- From: gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
- Subject: Re: This is the point!! (was bots-how to get rid of them)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.025934.24957@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 02:59:34 GMT
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- In article <By3JFF.KFp@news.cso.uiuc.edu> mkwg9074@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (M. K. Weaver) writes:
-
- > 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.
-
- Amid all the useless flaming, I should point out that not one of the
- people who wants to create the group has bothered to figure out how to
- do it. You obviously have enough interest; all anyone who wants to
- create the group has to do is get a clue.
-
- Here's a free clue: go read alt.config. All you have to do is follow a
- rather simple procedure and you can create any group you like. You do
- not have to be anyone special.
-
- > Some one has been asking for
- > help with starting a game of Diplomacy <sp>. HAS ANYONE
- > HELPED THIS PERSON?
-
- No. Not only has it already been done (3 years ago) and died out, the
- knowledge needed to build such an automaton is merely general computer
- knowledge. Helping this person on just the one specific area is
- unlikely to produce good results. The people who've written
- well-designed bots, like Armin, Wisner, and Misha, taught themselves
- how to do it.
-
- > 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.
-
- I just hope that the people with good intentions have enough of a clue
- to understand how to keep their bots from going into loops.
-