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- From: s_titz@ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: Bots and Common Sense
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 10:38:55 GMT
- Organization: Fachschaft math/inf, Uni Karlsruhe, FRG
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- References: <C16Iuq.DJH@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <C16Iuq.DJH@news.cso.uiuc.edu> smcmilla@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott A McMillan) writes:
-
- [a very good article, to which I fully agree, save for one little mistake:]
-
- > flood users or try to make witty conversation, kick 'em off. A good rule
- > of thumb is that no bot should talk unless msged, and then only in the form
- > of a msg.
-
- ..of a NOTICE, presumably a private (directed at a person rather than
- channel...
-
- > be banned from irc, so we have to put up with them. We SHOULD however, make
- > sure that they never flood and avoid loops. Hopefully, users will progress
- ^^^^^^^^^^^
- ...for this reason, as it is specified that a NOTICE may not be
- answered automatically.
-
- Olaf
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