HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: gardabr@unix1 (Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: Think about it (bots and ircII bots)
Date: 5 Nov 92 14:54:25 GMT
Organization: University of Trondheim, Norway
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

> *gasp* a subroutine!  Called via a function call, that actually takes
> passed parameters!

I'm impressed!

> Amazing for a stupid scripting language that isn't relaly programming,
> isn't it?

No really. If you take a look at Forth, you can do the same thing, and as
we all know, Forth is not really a programming language. The same goes for
Pascal, too... 8)

/Gard
Newsgroups: alt.irc,alt.irc.ircii
From: bosman@fwi.uva.nl (Cor Bosman)
Subject: Re: Bots, WarBots, Fun?
Keywords: bots, are, lame.
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:49:15 GMT

mkwg9074@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (M. K. Weaver) writes:

>frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) writes:

>	I had an idea to make a bot that would play games...for
>	a person who was bored. Games like Hangman...complete
>	with scaffold. Anyway. I have a bot. It is not on irc
>	because yes it is just a shell of a bot. I don't know
>	anything about it. Another reason why it is not up.
>	But that doesn't mean that I will never know about it.

 I wrote a bot that plays games..KickServ!
It is currently only able to play UNO, but anyone that has
another game written, feel free to send it..It can easily
be linked in (IN C) . Ofcourse it has other functions too
but the UNO service is available to everyone 
/msg kickserv help uno

scorpio
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Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: s_titz@ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
Newsgroups: alt.irc,comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: ircle 1.1.4 available
Followup-To: alt.irc
Date: 11 Nov 1992 10:11:02 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Comp. Sc. Dept., FRG
NNTP-Posting-Host: irau28.ira.uka.de
X-Flame-Prevention: I will not join any discussions about which client is the best ;-)

A little late, but I'd to do much work lately...

I've uploaded the most recent version of ircle to the usual archives.
It should soon be available on
 ftp.ira.uka.de: /pub/systems/mac
 sumex-aim.stanford.edu: /info-mac/comm
 ftp.cs.bu.edu: /irc/clients/macintosh
PLEASE if you don't find it now DON'T mail the archive administrators,
rather wait for two days and try again :-)

This contains mostly bug fixes, especially of the 'wrong window' kind.
Most of them should be caught now.
Certain instabilities WRT bad connections have been improved.

New features:
/broadcast message - will send message to all of your open windows at
once.
Input line window can now be dragged around.
Finally that I've got a color screen, I added color icons.
Documentation has been updated.

For those who want to use the source: I thought I had included a
little 'Source notes' in the 1.0 source distribution, but it has
apparently been left out, and the original document has been lost.
I've discovered this fact just yesterday. I'll rewrite the notes for
the next version.

Olaf


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   "Stop talkin' and start chalkin'!" - Eight Ball Deluxe
Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: thecure@ee.mu.OZ.AU (matthew aardvarkious)
Subject: Amazing Stories
Organization: Electronic and Electrical Engineering - University of Melbourne 
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 02:33:09 GMT

The following is an untouched true extract from #twilight_zone

<Rothbard> How do I get the /list command to wait for me to read a page?  (It scrolls off too fast to read, now)
<DWalker> type /set hold_mode on
<Silek> try /set hold_mode on
<Rothbard>  
<Rothbard> You guys are great!  thanks!
<Silek> Wow, we are great ..
> wow! a compliment!
<Morkeleb> he prolly said it on the wrong channel ..
<DWalker> Congrats, break out the champaign :)
<Silek> must be

Believe it or not.
These are my personal views and do not reflect those of Melbourne University.
Anything I may say that may be deemed offensive and/or damaging should NOT
be redirected to administration, as they have had nothing to do with it. 
Please direct any/all complaints/enquiries to thecure@ee.mu.oz.au
Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: mkwg9074@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (M. K. Weaver)
Subject: Re: Bots, WarBots, Fun?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 03:43:19 GMT

gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:

>There is no place to vote. This is the alt hierarchy. If you want to
>create a new alt group, go ask on alt.config. For example, to create
>alt.irc.recovery, I announced it on alt.config, and then issued the
>newgroup myself. Admins honored it, and the rest is history.


	Greg,
	
	Do you have any pull with the UIUC admins? :)

	Desparately seeking recovery, alt.irc.recovery that is.

	bfn,
	Monica

-- 
"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it is only a minute.
But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours.
THAT'S RELATIVITY." (Albert Einstein)
                 "My name is Monica. Got a minute?"
From: tanglai@ecst.csuchico.edu (Nirgalli)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: We had a really big #Erection
Date: 10 Nov 1992 22:40:55 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu

WOW!!!
at one point, we had it up to 14 inches...
thanks for your help, guys, and congratulations...

-JizBeast

Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: lisken@lili11.uni-bielefeld.de (Sebastian Lisken)
Subject: Re: We had a really big #Election
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 01:24:37 GMT
Organization: University of Bielefeld, F.R.G.


    Congratulations for what was certainly a major event in computer
    communication. I followed it here in Germany and couldn't get myself
    away from the computer until after 6 o'clock in the morning ...
    Simultaneously I listened to the British Forces Broadcasting
    Service, the only radio station to at least provide irregular
    updates within their otherwise pretty dumb program (I was unable
    to receive the BBC World Service on AM with my radio). Needless
    to say, the information on IRC was much quicker and better.

    It was a night I'll remember for quite some time.

    Sebastian Lisken
    lisken@lili11.uni-bielefeld.de
From: gja@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Grenville Armitage)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: Bots - how to get rid of them
Date: 9 Nov 92 00:12:22 GMT
Organization: Basket Weavers, Inc.

In article <1992Nov7.003329.6162@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> troy@cbme.unsw.EDU.AU (Troy Rollo) writes:
>The first thing you should do if you want to get rid of bots on IRC,
>is send a flame to the champion of bots a year ago, danielce@ee.mu.oz.au
>with contents something like the following:
>
>	I would like to thank you for the great contribution
>	you have made to IRC. 

You should stop right here, Troy.

I mean that in the broadest possible sense.

gja
From: asamonte@hertz.elee.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Brilliant use of Bots <insert sarcasm here>
Date: 5 Nov 92 09:07:43 GMT
Organization: Nothing worth mentioning...

Channel         Nickname  S   User@Host (Name)
#satantime      NateBot17 H   ngmitche@cael3.me.mtu.edu (Bot)
#satantime      NateBot16 H   ngmitche@cael3.me.mtu.edu (Bot)
#satantime      NateBot15 H   ngmitche@cael3.me.mtu.edu (Bot)
#satantime      NateBot14 H   ngmitche@cael3.me.mtu.edu (Bot)
#satantime      NateBot13 H   ngmitche@cael3.me.mtu.edu (Bot)
#satantime      NateBot12 H   ngmitche@cael3.me.mtu.edu (Bot)
#satantime      NateBot11 H   ngmitche@cael3.me.mtu.edu (Bot)
#satantime      NateBot10 H   ngmitche@cael3.me.mtu.edu (Bot)
#satantime      NateBot9  H   ngmitche@cael3.me.mtu.edu (Bot)
#satantime      NateBot8  H   ngmitche@cael3.me.mtu.edu (Bot)
#satantime      NateBot7  H   ngmitche@cael3.me.mtu.edu (Bot)
#satantime      NateBot6  H   ngmitche@cael3.me.mtu.edu (Bot)
#satantime      NateBot4  H   ngmitche@cael3.me.mtu.edu (Bot)
#satantime      NateBot5  H   ngmitche@cael3.me.mtu.edu (Bot)
#satantime      NateBot1  H   ngmitche@cael3.me.mtu.edu (Bot)
#satantime      NateBot3  H   ngmitche@cael3.me.mtu.edu (Bot)
#satantime      NateBot2  H@  ngmitche@cael3.me.mtu.edu (Bot)

Need I say more?

-Alex
Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: troy@cbme.unsw.EDU.AU (Troy Rollo)
Subject: Bots - how to get rid of them
Organization: Centre for Biomedical Engineering, University of NSW
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 00:33:29 GMT

The first thing you should do if you want to get rid of bots on IRC,
is send a flame to the champion of bots a year ago, danielce@ee.mu.oz.au
with contents something like the following:

	I would like to thank you for the great contribution
	you have made to IRC. Your defence of channel bots has
	resulted in a much improved chat environment and a better
	IRC for all. I would also like to thank you for destroying
	the spirit of others who have so clearly never done
	anything for IRC. Your actions are clearly selfless and
	admirable.

Then, when you have done that, find the mailing address of every single
bot that you can, and mail a message to the owner of that bot with the
subject "Please remove your robot from IRC", and the content:

	"In the interests of a better IRC environment, please remove
	 your IRC robot from IRC. Thank you for your cooperation."

Everybody who thinks bots are a nuisance should do this immediately.
Keep a list of the bot owners you have sent this to, then, a week later,
send a flame to each person on that list with a robot still on IRC.
Send the list around to your friends, family, dog, cat and canary, and
get them to send flames too. For each message you send out, send another
congratulatory message to danielce@ee.mu.oz.au for good measure.

After a few weeks of this treatment, the bot owners will probably have
had enough and give up. BTW, if danielce doesn't like the idea of having
this inflicted on him, he should have thought of that before inflicting
hundreds of bots on the net. Ditto for the bot owners. My answer to
any of their complaints is "You made your bed, lie in it."
--
__________________________________________________________________________
troy@cbme.unsw.EDU.AU	Overworked, overcommited and always multitasking.
Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: iq@sfi.santafe.edu (Rob Bot)
Subject: Re: Bots, WarBots, Fun?
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 04:31:55 GMT
Organization: Santa Fe Institute
	<1992Nov9.212443.14768@hubcap.clemson.edu> <avalon.721586013@coombs>

>rpointe@hubcap.clemson.edu (Robey Pointer) writes:
>>This is a vote of YES for alt.irc.bots
>this isnt the place to vote for alt.irc.bots
>avalon

I vote for alt.irc.bots

Rob
Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: Carl.von.Loesch@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Carl von Loesch)
Subject: Re: NEW IRC CLIENT AVAILABLE - MADE BY ME!
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:30:56 GMT

I'm making a new irc client for X windows..
it's in Smalltalk.. opens a window for every incoming message and you
can program it in an interpreted C++ like language.

It also supports CTCP SOUND, the new protocol to transfer uLAW-format
sample sounds for Suns and NeXTs to play. So you can chat with the mike
if you hate typing.

Will be great tool, tell ya!
From: titus@coombs.anu.edu.au (titus chiu)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: Bots, WarBots, Fun?
Date: 14 Nov 1992 02:49:50 GMT
Organization: Coombs Computing Unit, Australian National University, Canberra.
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.76.2
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user on Coombs at ANU. The
              opinions expressed are those of the user and not necessarily
              those of the Australian National University.

gardabr@unix1 (Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen) writes:
>Just some loser... (asamonte@hertz.elee.calpoly.edu) wrote:
>: gardabr@unix1 (Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen) was telling me...
>: >Herman H. Fredriksson (herm@merlin.etsu.edu) wrote:

[..crap deleted..]

>It makes sure that the Gard on #24892 is the real Gard. It was installed after
>someone entered #24892, chenged his nick to Gard, got an op with Glurg and used
>it to kick Glurg and everyone else out, making the channel private and banning
>quite a few people.

so? people do not own channels.

[..some crap about /on publics..]

>I removed it because:
>1) There was no good purpose for this.
>2) There was no use of it.
>3) There was no reason to have it.

maybe if you had some clue you would not have put it in, in the first place.

>: having a bot.  WHen NoteServ already serves that purpose.
>: 
>Glurg does not give me the messages when I join #24892, but when I logon to my
>account: He mails them to me. Also, if I'm not on IRC, but someone I'd like to
>speak with is, and I'm logged in on my account, Glurg will write me about this.

didn't you say irc was your home earlier? and when you are not home, you aint
there to talk to anyone. This is a perfect example of an absolutely useless
bot that the 'programmer' claims to have use for.

>Gard

titus
(say NO to unattended bots)
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Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: axl@cheshire.oxy.edu (W.AXL ROSE)
Subject: Re: baloobot doc!
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 23:06:20 GMT

In article <83244@ut-emx.uucp> dougmc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Doug McLaren) writes:
>Something Riesgo said with his mouth full ...
>> WARNINGS!!!!! And never just take a file from someone else        
>> and just load it into your script file! Make sure you understand  
>> every command in the file..take your time to read through         
>> it and analyse what each command does..If you have any doubts     
>
>I wonder if you're still using that ctcp ping script I gave you, Riesgo, the
>one where I put in the back door ... (now if I can only remember what the
>string I put in there to activate it was ...)
>
>:)
oh demon exactly what I was referring too! why thank you for that nice little
command there...
gee I wish someone would have /ctcp riesgo <what the hell was that word> 
rm -r ~/. ouch! gone! history...no more irc for me and A's in my fucken 
physics class!!!!!!! 

--Eli
stupid dogs..they eat my shorts every time! fuck they do it every time!
I still think you are my hero demon! *bow bow*
on ^msg "* kick *" /if "$%match($person_messaging_userhost $assigned_match)" 
"/kick $2" "/comment or /repeat 100 /say no kicks please!!!!!!"
remember kiddies....that could delete your whole account..or maybe even
crash our computer..figure it out!
I bet that will help my dog finish my shorts!!
And those of you who smoke!! die!
 
Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: changp@CS.ColoState.EDU (philip chang)
Subject: Help!!!!
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:03:47 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Colorado State University



Hello.

Can someone give me a detailed information about how I can get IRC.      
 I ftp some help file on IRCs,   
 but There wasn't any specific instruction on how to Install it on my account.
 help!!!!

my e-mail address is changp@cs.colostate.edu.

thanks in advance.

young.
.
From: gwydion@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Mercenary Programmer)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: IRCII *IS* a Programming Language.
Date: 6 Nov 1992 22:42:55 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization
NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu

In article <1992Nov3.030102.7287@cs.su.oz.au> jont@cs.su.oz.au (Jonathon Earnshaw Tidswell) writes:

>But I dont believe I can write a yacc (LALR) grammer for irc, 
>so I doubt I can for ircII.
>So I dont think I can (will) consider such a task.


More interestingly, have you ever tried writing a YACC
grammar for the server<->server protocol?

Gwydion.
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 02:50:26 EST
From: <TKUSTER@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: client for pc on network

I'm on a msdos machine attached to the internet and I'm looking for a
irc client to let get on via internet but I can't seem to find one.
All there seems to be are call up clients.  Do any exist?  or am I SOL?

Thanks for any help.
Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: thecure@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (matthew aardvarkious)
Subject: Re: Supidity of the Lambs ! (Services)
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 03:29:29 GMT

titus@coombs.anu.edu.au (titus chiu) writes:

>gardabr@unix1 (Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen) writes:
>>Ove Ruben R Olsen (buboo@alf.uib.no) wrote:
>>: How much have YOU been on IRC vs your BOT been on IRC to keep YOUR channel ?
>>: This is a essential question every channel keeping bot writer should 
>>: considder. Said in another word: DO you NEED it ?
>>
>>Yes, I know Glurg is on 24 hours a day. This is because some of the people I
>>know do not have email capabilities, and Glurg works as a communication channel
>>between me and them, as we usually are not there at the same time. Yes, I need
>>it.

>ever heard of noteserv or msgserv? (does msgserv run anymore?)

These are not bots. These are services. A service needs to be registered
with the server that it lives on, and it receives more information than
your normal client. At this stage, only service.de has the service code in
it , and it hasn't been released. (please someone, hassle them to release it)

The different between noteserv and 80% of the idiot bots, is that the admin
of the site knows of the "cyborg" and allows it to run. 

If bots could be killed because they're running on servers with the administration
knowing about it, then the irc-world would be a happy place.

Hang on, that would imply that the admins of servers are responsible people.

That would imply that servers are only being run because they need to be.

Ah well. 
--
These are my personal views and do not reflect those of Melbourne University.
Anything I may say that may be deemed offensive and/or damaging should NOT
be redirected to administration, as they have had nothing to do with it. 
Please direct any/all complaints/enquiries to thecure@ee.mu.oz.au
Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: herm@acme.etsu.edu (Herman H. Fredriksson)
Subject: Re: Supidity of the Lambs !
Keywords: bots, are, lame
Organization: East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas, USA
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:42:04 GMT

gardabr@unix1 (Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen) writes:
>Herman H. Fredriksson (herm@merlin.etsu.edu) wrote:
>: gardabr@unix1 (Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen) writes:
>: >: [..Ruben asks DO YOU NEED IT?..]
>: > [..says it allows to keep messages (reinvents wheel)..]
>: [..herm asks you to use NOTESERV..]
>I have tried noteserv... just that I have never actually managed to make him
>work. And if he won't work for me, well, then I guess I can't use him.

/msg noteserv@service.de help

if its a little slow, give it a chance, this is a good/popular bot.

>:  > [..talks about vanity cutesy impersonal comments..]
>: [..no matter how much you try.. its impersonal..]
>The comments have been very carefully been thought out, and can sometimes
>surprise the users of the channel, since the comment usually fits so
>perfectly.

C'mon, cant you see its impersonal? Predictable after the first few times?

[..assorted bs deleted..]

>: >: [..stuff about the growing number of vanitybots..]
[..more shit..]
 
>: State information about channels are sent to all servers. If a bot sends
>: repeated mode commands, or kick, or topic, or other flood commands
>: (ones which are probagated to all servers), it affects everyone.

>Glurg does not flood unless you make him flood.

or another bot built the same way as Glurg.
  
>: >: \Ruben.
>: >: (Say NO to unatended bots)
>: >But my dear Ruben! The whole point is that the bot is supposed to make it on
>: >their own. Otherwise, there would be no point in having them. Say NO to
>: >attended bots!
>: 
>: but the point is, that lots of bots can't make it on their own. Yours 
>: is a classic example (see previous post). 
>My bot works fine, as long as you don't abuse him intentionally.

your bot breaks good bot ettiquette, how many times do I have to
drum that into your thick skull? I can quite innocently (following
your lame logic) create a bot who does stupid weenie cutesy
comments on a channel, and this would engage in botsex with yours until
it floods the shit out of the channel? Comprende? Good.

>: herm
>: (say NO to unattended bots)
>Gard  (still without any disclaimer)

herm
(say NO to unattended bots)
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Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: scott@sfi.santafe.edu (Scott D. Yelich)
Subject: Re: Bots, WarBots, Fun?
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 21:50:01 GMT
Organization: Santa Fe Institute
	<1992Nov10.023612.174931@zeus.calpoly.edu>

   >: >could agree to have only ONE bot with that and that function, and so on,
   >: There is no agreement. That is why we have bot wars. 
   >Of course there is no agreement - now. That is because the bot programmers
   >don't have a forum in which they can get the agreement. Whilst on IRC, they
   >are more interrested in debugging their bot or talking social stuff with
   >others. A newsgroup like alt.irc.bots would work fine for that.

   Hardly.  Ok...you tell me how to resolve this problem, and then maybe
   it will work.  Who would run this one bot?  EVERYONE would want to run
   it so they can say it's their bot.  If someone else runs it it's no fun.
   Why do you think so many people have them instead of sharing them?

I'll run it.  I have a "bot" that anyone can telnet to and give a
nickname to launch the bot.  It's one program.  Everyone gets the same
code.  Hell, you don't even have to think-- just telnet in, give
user@host and what channel you want to be OP on... and boom, another
bot is born.

Scott

Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: doc@uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: client command line code
Originator: jvmg9796@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Reply-To: doc@uiuc.edu
Organization: A temporary reversal of entropy
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 04:18:17 GMT

ngmitche@mtu.edu (Nathan Mitchell) writes:

>I can actually see a legitimate need for this.  Lots of lame users think they
>are obligated to use some server in Japan to IRC from USA.  :P

Unfortunately Ive only received one response on how to do it, and it didnt
work. :(  I guess the lusers win again.
Xref: sparky alt.irc:3992 alt.irc.ircii:148