Ringo the Bot

"If getting games is half the fun as laying video music, I'm there, man!" - Austen

IRC is full of annoying little quirks. Getting nuked. Lamers messaging you. Getting those little things that look like this: "<sexchix0r> Hey big boy? You ready for some hot, steamy action! Come to Bob Dole's Porn Palace! http://www.bobdolespornpalace.com!", and of course, what can be more annoying than bots? Sure, they seem alright at first, they can auto-op you give you stupid little messages that can make you feel good. Do all kinds of shit. But, they can be fucking annoying. First off, #tie_fighter (EFnet r0x j00) never used a bot, and I doubt we ever will ('cept for that lame one Kutan made a while back), why? Because we've saw how useless one can be. Examples: We like to harass channels, thus we know all kinds of shit about these, #irc4kids has a bot named Tassle. It sucks. It plays little trivia games with you, which I always fuck up when I annoy them, and we know how to avoid it's auto-kick on curse feature. #teens4christ's bot is even worse. It never catches you when you disobey, and when it does, all the ops in the channel rejoice. Anyway, all bots suck (especially Chocobot), EXCEPT for one. Ringo. While searching for channels to harass, I came along #sodomy (eh... shut the fuck up before I smack you), we've harassed all kinds of channels, and we figured this wouldn't be any different. Well, it was. There were only two bots in the channel, bool and ringo, there didn't seem to be anything special about them at all. Until Ringo started making no fucking sense, at all! That's right, he's crazy! See for yourself with these logs!

w0rd	date	logged by	Description
One!	10.12.98	Sakura	One of our first encounters withRingo,and he turns out to be a friend for life!
Two!	10.15.98	Austen	Austen gets in a fight with Ringo, and gets his ass kicked all over the place!
Three!	10.15.98	Sakura	We find out why Ringo goes long periods without saying a word, then he bursts out numerous quotes. =)
Four!	11.29.98	Sakura	A serious announcement... the death of Ringo. Originally published on the FRPG message board.
Five!	12.20.98	Sakura	The revival of Ringo, under the name of hanford! Unfortunatley, Hanford wasn't exactly the same as Ringo (not as talkative, etc.). Originally published on the FRPG message board.
Six!	12.20.98	Sakura	Read this. Now. We meet the creator of Ringo and Hanford, harrison , he happens to be a damn cool guy, by the way, and was nice enough to give scoutz the source code for ringo. Rock on, Harrison. =)



		Original: macross.simplenet.com (broken) *Mysteries of Ringo . . . . . u n c o v e r e d* : The original link to "Bark" (which appears to power Ringo) no longer works, although the Mozilla Bot referred to is still hidden away at mozilla.org. Unfortunately this is far removed from the Ringo or Hanford bots and unnecessarily complicated. The backbone of the Mozillla Bot is a Perl Script which uses the Net::IRC module. Packaged with the Net::IRC module is a simple tutorial script, which basically spits out random phrases into a channel and can be easily modified with a little knowledge of Perl. Of course you need to get it all compiled and running on a UNIX account first.... Update:** The authors of this fine material have relaunched their site. Click here, here or here to visit. Back		...