This is an old, old e-mail sent by Robey himself -- I find it extremely funny. <> Message-ID: <33418D15.7B71@netscape.com> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 14:32:54 -0800 From: Robey Pointer X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0GoldC (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eggdrop@sodre.net, eggdrop-devel@sodre.net, operlist@rocza.kei.com Subject: release: eggdrop 2.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 3738 After several months of work, I'm finally ready to release eggdrop 2.0, the final "this time I really mean final" version. There are some bug fixes over the 1.1 release, plus many new features. The full list can be found in the UPDATES file. This is *definetly* the LAST eggdrop release I will do. Microsoft has graciously donated FTP space for me, so the main site is now: ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/pub/eggdrop/eggdrop2.0.tar.gz It may take a day for it to show up there (my uploads don't get put into the right place until someone moves them). The mirrors will generally have it about 24 hours after that. The web site is: http://www.valuserve.com/~robey/eggdrop with mirrors at: http://www.texas.net/~barron/eggdrop/ http://www.kindercare.com/~piker/eggdrop/ The web sites will store a version locally until Microsoft picks it up. (This means you can go there NOW and get a copy, but it may be slow.) Here are the most notable feature changes from 1.1 to 2.0: * The userfile has been migrated into a distributed LDAP database. When you first start the 2.0 bot it will convert the old text-based userfile into an LDAP database which can be served to anyone. This outdates the old "share-bot" system * A full-featured MUD has been added ('.mud'). A botnet may be linked into a pMOCK mud with '.plink' -- each botnet channel appears as a different room on the mud. * To appease opers, the bot will do a sequence of '/stats o' requests and '/links' requests to maintain a list of opers online. Every 5 minutes it will send a PRIVMSG to all opers saying "This is an eggdrop 2.0 bot." Opers not wishing to receive these notices should put all eggdrop bots on /IGNORE. * Windows/NT, Macintosh, and USRobotics Pilot ports completed. * 'Robey' is hard-coded into the "owner" variable, read-only, for security reasons. * When opered, eggdrop will periodically send a random /KILL message with the reason "clone bot" or "don't tell ME to shut up, BIATCH!" This is to help make the bot hard to detect. * The file system may double as an FTP server or web server. * The exectuable is now only 26k on my Linux system. The rest exists as a shared library which is downloaded from the eggdrop archive right before starting up. * All IRC communications are compressed with gzip. You will need a gzip-capable IRC client to understand anything the bot says or does on a channel. Currently eggdrop is the only gzip-compatible IRC client. * New config file setting 'set esp 1' will turn on advanced detection of channel trouble-makers. Bashers and evil ones are detected and banned before they actually join the channel. * A color-scheme, incidentally completely incompatible with the ones used by mirc and pirch, was added. Each color change is preceded by the text "CoLoRcHaNgE:" and followed with "". By default all info lines are displayed in blinking green. * On Dalnet, if your bot's nickname is less than 31 characters, it will fill in random characters until it is 31 characters long, to appease Dalnet purists. * Emacs c-lisp script language support was added, along with the full emacs feature support. From an X client, to begin an emacs session with your bot, do '.emacs [filename]'. Eggdrop should no longer be considered a "bot". Instead, it is "the Eggdrop/ Emacs Operating System". * '.whom' bug for isolated partylines was fixed (patch by Imoq) * lots of other little changes Robey -- | Marge: Homer, that's not God, that's just a Robey Pointer | waffle that Bart tossed up there! robey@netscape.com | Homer: God, I know I shouldn't eat thee, | but... *munch!* mmmmm, sacrelicious!