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- From: scott@sfi.santafe.edu (Scott D. Yelich)
- Subject: Re: A new (very simple) bot solution
- Message-ID: <SCOTT.92Nov23090038@sfi.santafe.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 16:00:38 GMT
- Organization: Santa Fe Institute
- In-Reply-To: dougmc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu's message of 23 Nov 92 07:25:27 GMT
- References: <Dweiss-161192175220@chiba.hughes.american.edu> <1ebm4fINNoat@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
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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.
-
- DUH... you have a password with a nick. If your password gets known,
- then change it.
-
- > 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
-
- *BONK*
-
- Then it could be done by IRC NICKNAME and not just login account.
-
- > 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.
-
- good luck.
-
- > 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.
-
- A Jihad?
-
- > 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.
-
- Welcome to the machine.
-
- Scott
-