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Newbie Guide to the Newsgroups (4th Edition)

Nov 29, 2002, 8:51pm
^^racoons^^

[View Quote] > He might like rocoons better, who knows...
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test

Feb 26, 2003, 1:46pm
test
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Bots N Privacy

Jul 21, 2003, 1:04pm
Hi Xelag, long time no see...well the CNN option seems intriguing :o)
icey
[View Quote] >To explain this a bit more. Since 1998/1999, when bots were created,
>they have the ability to receive chat, and to receive whispers
>adressed to them (and only those ones addressed to them), and receive
>all other AW events. This is because they use the AW SDK. But bots
>don't only use the AW SDK, they have their own code to handle what
>they do with this. It depends on the bot maker what sort of code they
>add (and they MUST add code, otherwise bots would do nothing). They
>could be adding code to send the owner's password to someone, or the
>whole chat to the CIA...
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>First rule: use bots from trusted makers.
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>Second rule: NEVER expect that people or bots will do what you want.
>You have, in your own world, the right to select which people and
>which bots you allow in. You do NOT have that right in other worlds.
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>Whispers seem safe to me. World servers do not log them, and they do
>not go thru the universe server. Telegrams are dangerous: the
>universe server has an option to LOG ALL TELEGRAMS. Chat is open to
>everone: it can be privately logged, sent world wide , published on
>CNN, there is no way to control that.
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