[2741] in linux-net channel archive
Re: IRC server Configuration
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Tue Apr 30 12:43:30 1996
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 02:44:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: "Arthur S. Petrossian" <arthur@sci.am>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960429162554.1364A-100000@pnas.sci.am>
On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Arthur S. Petrossian wrote:
> > on the channels 24/7.
> So how do some IRC channels in the Undernet remain permanently?
> Just because there is always someone one them? Or there is a way to keep
> them permanent regardless of that?
Bots. Do some searching for something called eggdrop...it seems to be
one of the most popular ones. Bots are programs that log into IRC and
stay there. You run them on a unix box as a background process. They
can "guard" channels, give op status to selected people, deliver
information, etc.
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