Just happens to be at home saturday night, what could be better than a
chat on RFC's channel?
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Vilco
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Vilco wrote

> Just happens to be at home saturday night, what could be better than
a
> chat on RFC's channel?

BTW, WTF is this "nagger" guy?
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Think pink, drink rose'

On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 20:47:10 +0100, "Vilco" > wrote:

>Vilco wrote
>
>> Just happens to be at home saturday night, what could be better than
>a
>> chat on RFC's channel?
>
>BTW, WTF is this "nagger" guy?

It's the bot. Does the same thing as Googlebot.

Christine

Christine Dabney wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 20:47:10 +0100, "Vilco" > wrote:
>
>> Vilco wrote
>>
>>> Just happens to be at home saturday night, what could be better
>>> than a chat on RFC's channel?
>>
>> BTW, WTF is this "nagger" guy?
>
> It's the bot. Does the same thing as Googlebot.

Well, I am in the chat

Christine Dabney wrote:

> On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 20:47:10 +0100, "Vilco" > wrote:
>
>>Vilco wrote
>>
>>> Just happens to be at home saturday night, what could be better than
>>a
>>> chat on RFC's channel?
>>
>>BTW, WTF is this "nagger" guy?
>
> It's the bot. Does the same thing as Googlebot.

Ah! I was going to ask about that, too. I went chat last night (for
pretty much the first time in a decade; I used to chat frequently but got
away from it) and it twice posted links to blinkynet.net in response to
comments I made. Since I'm new to that server, I'll further ask: since
Vilco just saw fit to ask about nagger, does that imply that its
appearance there is new?


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On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:58:48 -0800, Blinky the Shark
> wrote:

>Since I'm new to that server, I'll further ask: since Vilco
>just saw fit to ask about nagger, does that imply that its
>appearance there is new?


It's a new name. I don't know why the name was changed from
"Googlebot" - but it was.

If the person who names it wants to stick with Nagger (I happen to
like it, so I don't think of it in such negative terms), maybe it
should have "bot" added: naggerbot, nagbot, busybot... whatever. That
way everyone knows it's just a machine and won't be weirded out by the
"lurker" called Nagger.

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I was wondering too. Small group of us in there now.

On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:58:48 -0800, Blinky the Shark
> wrote:


>Vilco just saw fit to ask about nagger, does that imply that its
>appearance there is new?

Well, yes and no. There has been a bot there for what seems like
forever..it just got renamed..or something.

Christine

"Christine Dabney" > wrote in message
...
> On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:58:48 -0800, Blinky the Shark
> > wrote:
>
>
>>Vilco just saw fit to ask about nagger, does that imply that its
>>appearance there is new?
>
> Well, yes and no. There has been a bot there for what seems like
> forever..it just got renamed..or something.
>
> Christine
>
To expand upon the 'bot', it performs various functions such as creating a
Tiny URL if you post a long link in chat. If you have a (US only?) postal
code, given a specific command it will give you your current weather
conditions.

Jill

jmcquown wrote:


> "Christine Dabney" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:58:48 -0800, Blinky the Shark
>> > wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Vilco just saw fit to ask about nagger, does that imply that its
>>>appearance there is new?
>>
>> Well, yes and no. There has been a bot there for what seems like
>> forever..it just got renamed..or something.
>>
>> Christine
>>
> To expand upon the 'bot', it performs various functions such as creating
> a Tiny URL if you post a long link in chat. If you have a (US only?)
> postal code, given a specific command it will give you your current
> weather conditions.

Zat it? I saw those last night; was that its whole schtick?

I was in for a moment, tonight. I left to watch SNL. I don't do
politics, but I'd read that Hillary Clinton was making an unbilled
appearance, and wanted to see what she'd do. Nothing much; very missable.
Perhaps I'll jump back to chat in a few...


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"Blinky the Shark" > wrote in message
news
> jmcquown wrote:
>
>
>> "Christine Dabney" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:58:48 -0800, Blinky the Shark
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Vilco just saw fit to ask about nagger, does that imply that its
>>>>appearance there is new?
>>>
>>> Well, yes and no. There has been a bot there for what seems like
>>> forever..it just got renamed..or something.
>>>
>>> Christine
>>>
>> To expand upon the 'bot', it performs various functions such as creating
>> a Tiny URL if you post a long link in chat. If you have a (US only?)
>> postal code, given a specific command it will give you your current
>> weather conditions.
>
> Zat it? I saw those last night; was that its whole schtick?
>
> --
> Blinky
>
I've no idea if it has any other tricks up its sleeve. I don't pay much
attention to it, although it did throw me when the name was changed to
'nagger'.

Jill

On 2008-03-02, jmcquown > wrote:

> To expand upon the 'bot', it performs various functions such as creating a
> Tiny URL if you post a long link in chat.

It's failed spectacularly on that account. It's lucky if it shortens URLs
50% of the time, both now and in its previous incarnation. I just do it
myself before posting. Everyone should have this site bookmarked and easily
accessible:

http://tinyurl.com

nb