Re: [E-devel] Edevelop IRC bot

2014-10-12 Thread Andrew Williams
Hi, The bot that I use can do this (~tell nick message) but it was banned as all others are. I know it was a tad noisy but I could turn off all features apart from that and it could be unbanned maybe? I find bots useful for this purpose. It could be tweaked to also replay messages mentioning

Re: [E-devel] Edevelop IRC bot

2014-10-12 Thread Alex-P. Natsios
I am strongly in favor of Michael's opinion. too many bots add too much spam/noise in the channel. As raster pointed out you can reach him by mail if you miss him on the channel or take advantage of the memoserv in freenode to send a memo to the user you wish if you don't catch 'em online. --

Re: [E-devel] Edevelop IRC bot

2014-10-12 Thread Fan Cris
its so quiet in last time than im happy if i see and a boot message :) On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 1:32 AM, Alex-P. Natsios apnats...@gmail.com wrote: I am strongly in favor of Michael's opinion. too many bots add too much spam/noise in the channel. As raster pointed out you can reach him by

[E-devel] Edevelop IRC bot

2014-09-23 Thread Thanatermesis
I don't remember which was the time where the last bot was running in our IRC channels, but today I found the need to use a specific bot feature, so there's my small suggestion: I have recently configured a bot framework with only a few features with the idea to be a useful tool not-obtrusive,

Re: [E-devel] Edevelop IRC bot

2014-09-23 Thread Tom Hacohen
Hey, I don't see the use. Send emails. :) Anyhow though, OMG RUBY. : -- Tom. On 23/09/14 15:53, Thanatermesis wrote: I don't remember which was the time where the last bot was running in our IRC channels, but today I found the need to use a specific bot feature, so there's my small

Re: [E-devel] Edevelop IRC bot

2014-09-23 Thread Boris Faure
On 14-09-23 16:53, Thanatermesis wrote: […] Specially the memos one is useful, for example, today raster did a fix and I needed to confirm that works, but raster was logout just after that so instead to have another thing to do flying on my mind i can just leave him a memo in the channel,

Re: [E-devel] Edevelop IRC bot

2014-09-23 Thread Jérémy Zurcher
On Tuesday 23 September 2014 16:08, Tom Hacohen wrote : Hey, I don't see the use. Send emails. :) Anyhow though, OMG RUBY. : I love ruby as much as i dislike python ;)) -- Tom. -- Meet PCI DSS 3.0

Re: [E-devel] Edevelop IRC bot

2014-09-23 Thread Thanatermesis
raster Thana`: did u try the changes? -- raster se ha marchado (Quit: Gettin' stinky!) Lol I just missed him again... see, he will have got the message :), ok let me try that memoserv now Another usage: to not use emails! :] Since the bot is not an obtrusive toy, why not having a nice feature

Re: [E-devel] Edevelop IRC bot

2014-09-23 Thread Michael Jennings
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Thanatermesis thanatermesis.e...@gmail.com wrote: Since the bot is not an obtrusive toy, why not having a nice feature available in the channel? Because experience has shown that all bots, no matter how unobtrusive, are obtrusive. And it adds no value that

Re: [E-devel] Edevelop IRC bot

2014-09-23 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:19:36 +0200 Thanatermesis thanatermesis.e...@gmail.com said: raster Thana`: did u try the changes? -- raster se ha marchado (Quit: Gettin' stinky!) Lol I just missed him again... see, he will have got the message :), ok let me try that memoserv now or if you miss