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>>>>> "John" == John Karns <jkarns at csd.net> writes:

John> Not to sound ignorant or anything, but what's an irc bot?

a good site for all things irc is

   http://www.irchelp.org/

from the faq, at

   http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/altircfaq.html

we have the following definition of "bot":

   What is a "bot"? How can I get one?

   "bot" is short for "robot". It is a script run from an ircII client
   or a seperate program (in perl, C, and sometimes more obscure
   languages). StarOwl at uiuc.edu (Michael Adams) defined bots very
   well: "A bot is a vile creation of /lusers to make up for lack of
   penis length". IRC bots are generally not needed. See below about
   "ownership" of nicknames and channels. A bot generally tries to
   "protect" a channel (it should be noted that all bots will fail at
   some point, so relying on them to keep a channel is not a good
   idea) from takeovers.
   
   It should be noted that many servers (especially in the USA) ban
   ALL bots. Some ban bots so much that if you run a bot on their
   server, you will be banned from using that server (see segment
   below on K: lines).

put another way, an "irc bot" is an irc client, it is just a program,
not an interactive interface to a live human.  this is the same
distinction made between web spiders/crawlers and web browsers.

John> An irc server daemon pehaps?

no, those are ususally called "ircd"s, usually with an indicator of
their heritage (e.g. undernet or dalnet ircd is subtly different from
the "original" ircd.)

t.