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- From: dougmc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Doug McLaren)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: A new (very simple) bot solution
- Message-ID: <84195@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 07:25:27 GMT
- References: <Dweiss-161192175220@chiba.hughes.american.edu> <1ebm4fINNoat@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
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- Organization: Doug's House of Disco
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- Dweiss@chiba.hughes.american.edu (Dan Weiss) writes:
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- >Ok. Here it is (take a deep breath.)
- >Make the IRC network only allow one login from each address.
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- Bad idea, at least the way things work now.
- Nick collisions are bad enough. Then we'd have login collisions too.
- I don't like Bozo here ... I'll just fake his login, run a bot w/ it, and
- Bozo can't get onto IRC. Or if I ran a server, I could fake his entire
- user@host ... could keep anybody off of IRC.
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- I see this as being far too easy to abuse. Besides, there are accounts that
- are being used by more than one person. This entire idea is flawed from the
- very start. No 'technical' solution is going to solve the bot 'problem' for
- good. The best solution (the best 'immediate' solution) would be for
- individual server admins to start a 'No bots' or a 'No auto-opping bots' or
- a 'No more than one bot run by one person on one channel' policy, to be
- policed by the the server runners, perhaps with a kill or two to start, and
- K-lines for those that had been warned repeatedly. Of course, then they
- would move to different servers, who may or may not follow a similar policy.
- Eventually, if enough servers participated, all the bots would end up on
- a few servers, which could be /squitted, or at least vacated by the humans
- on IRC. And if not enough server admins participated, well, then obviously
- the anti-bot sentiment wasn't strong enough.
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- Of course, this all depends on the admin of each server agreeing on a common
- goal. From what I've seen, that's highly unlikely. Each admin is free to
- either provide a useful service, to be a tyrannical dictator, or anything
- in between.
-
- Doug
- Just say no to Assholes, be they lusers, chanops, ircops, admin, sysops,
- aussies, europeans, americans, humans, bots, reefer addicts, etc.
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- ----------------------- \ Zippy says:
- Doug McLaren, \ Hiccuping & trembling into the WASTE DUMPS of New
- DemoN on IRC \ Jersey like some drunken CABBAGE PATCH DOLL,
- dougmc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu \ coughing in line at FIORUCCI'S!!
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