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- From: bosman@fwi.uva.nl (Cor Bosman)
- Subject: Re: A new (very simple) bot solution
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.212856.12996@fwi.uva.nl>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:28:56 GMT
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- scott@sfi.santafe.edu (Scott D. Yelich) writes:
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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.
-
- You have GOT to be kidding! Who is gonna keep those passwords?
- IT'd definately solve the nickproblems tho. Hell, im gonna
- make entries for all possible nicknames I can come up with...or
- doYOU wanna limit the number of logins from 1 account too?
- Passwords for nicknames...sheesh.... AUSWEISS BITTE!
-
-
- >> 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.
-
- Yeah, good luck, No way that'd ever work. Not every op is into the power trip.
- And think about all those mistreated people that feel they have to
- revenge themselves after being K: lined. Do we really need that>
- You know what usually works for me? its really amazing...
- /ignore <bot> all , whoa! what a concept!
-
- cor
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