[lug] Weird directory in users home dir

[Nate Duehr]

The "apt" bot on openprojects.net in the #debian channel is one of the
most useful sources for all sorts of Linux information I've found in an
IRC channel ever.

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 12:43:48PM -0600, Tkil wrote:
> >>>>> "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.
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