From: herm@coombs.anu.edu.au (Herman H. Fredriksson)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: Bots, WarBots, Fun?
Followup-To: alt.dev.null
Date: 16 Nov 1992 20:34:13 GMT
Organization: Coombs Computing Unit, Australian National University, Canberra.
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gardabr@unix1.MRIH.NO (Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen) writes:
>Herman H. Fredriksson (herm@acme.etsu.edu) wrote:
[..much crap deleted..] 
>: >..and this is the third time I try to tell you that the position of this
>: >statement was a bit awkward, as what I mean was not that I had removed the
>: >/on publics, but the fact that Glurg went around visiting other channels.
 
>: and once again, I have to drum into your thick skull that
>: /on public *keyphrase* say dumbshit comment. Breaks irc protocol,
>: can you understand this? Hello? Is anyone awake inside there?
 
>If you had taken a better look at my statement, you would see that all I was
>doing here, was amending a misunderstanding which, when misunderstood correctly
>would make it look as if I was saying something I was talking against later.
>And the "hello? Is anyone awake inside there?" is totally irrelevant.

I know you are trying to compensate for your misunderstanding, but you
also showed here that you had not removed the on publics. Something
which breaks the protocol. And I can see once again you are not listening.

>: free clue: sending privmsg on a privmsg is wrong. sending a notice on a
>: privmsg is tolerable at best.

>And if you had read other strings than this one, you would know that we are
>in fact discissing the protocol and people's knowledge of this one in another
>string.

Do you mean threads? If so, the topic of bots obeying protocol belongs
in this thread too

[..buckets of crap..]
 
>: free clue: screen
 
>You wouldn't come with this comment if you knew the system we have here. Now.
>tin is run on unix1.mrih.no. The version of screen on unix1 does not work
>properly and will mess up the screen of irc. So we run irc from samson.mrih.no.
>The version of screen on samson.mrih.no is okay, and I can run both elm and irc
>on samson. However, to run tin, I have to telnet unix1. When I telnet unix1
>from samson, vi (which is the silly editor tin uses on unix1) does no longer
>recognize the cursor keys, and editing anything is impossible. I can at best
>post something without quotes - if what I write is correct before I press
>return.

You can use the following keys in vi as cursor keys in non-insert mode.
h - left, j - down, k - up, l - right. You can also use all the ed(1)
commands inside vi by typing ":". Feel free to ignore or whinge about 
this advice.
Why not compile rn or tin or something in samson if its not as "losing"
a machine as unix1?

>: you have to buy/beg/borrow/steal the rest of the clues, you clueless dork.
 
>Another useless comment. Could you please try to be a bit more creative and
>thereby use less bandwidt on bullshit comments like these.

your bullshit comment here takes up twice as many lines as mine.

>/Gard - no disclaimer/why waste bandwidth?

herm
(say NO to unattended bots)
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