[lug] What is a bot?

[dan radom]

if you don't know then you don't need to worry.  an ircbot is a background process that launches a "robot" onto an irc network to perform various irc tasks.  take a look at eggdrop (search google.com) if you want to know more about what they are and how they work.

dan:wq

* David Porter (brett_w_porter at yahoo.com) wrote:
> Hi, I am a Linux newbie so go easy on me. :)
> 
> I am wanting to learn shell scripting, and have found
> an ISP that will give me a shell account (Fairplay
> Communications).  But there usage agreement at
> http://www.fpcc.net/policies/aup.php3 says that IRC
> bots are prohibited.  I kind of know what IRC is (some
> kind of chat rooms I think), but what is a IRC bot?  I
> just want to know so that I don't get kicked off
> fpcc.net because I was ignorant. :)
> 
> Brett
> 
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