Re: [infobot] Re: unsubscribing?

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On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Tim Riker wrote:

> Well, at the moment I still consider the old list the official one. I'll
> holler if that changes. I certainly appreciate the archive. Thanx!

Aw thanks :)

>>> How many folks on the list still use the original infobot codebase?
>>
>> Me.
>
> Interesting. Why not flooterbuck or blootbot?

Truth be told, inertia.  I hacked my infobot to do stuff I wanted as
well, and I'm not hacker, and it was gruesome, and certainly not
worth contributing back to the community. Silly stuff.  I looked at
bloodbot once, and rejected it for some reason I can't remember, and
had never heard of flooterbuck until you mentioned it yesterday.

Yes, I haven't kept up.  If someone somewhere could map out a brief
set of can's and can't's for each bot, and requirements for each, or
point to one that exists, that would be great.  Presumably they don't
all have to same functionality else they wouldn't all exist? (I ask
naively, ignoring the fact the forks happen because of people, not
just needs)....

What I want from a bot is mostly silliness.  Optional, not required
mode, and the ability to pick up 5 years of dross and repeat it back
to amusing effect.  And realising that with some clever constructs you
can make it do knock-knock jokes without programming.  And making it
impersonate Sean Connery when answering ("be sean").  I suspect I'm not
one of the most useful or serious contributors to the bot community.

Can I bounce the implication I'm assuming is behind your question back
at you then: if the bots all overlap in functionality and requirements,
why do you want to keep infobot going?

>>> Personally, I like having an SQL back end. I use SQLite so that it's
>>> still just a local file. SQLite is still a big step up from db files.
>>
> Exactly the reasons that I use SQLite. It is just a local file and no
> root level access is required.

Point taken re. SQLite.  I suppose I'm iffy about it because I had to
change from SQLite to MySQL when my music player (amarok) kept
corrupting my SQLite database irretrievably when crashing.  I'm sure
an app bug but...