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Reader comments
drewApr 19, 2004 at 11:41AM
Looks like its me and you again tonight, Rosie.
Robert D.Apr 19, 2004 at 3:05PM
Oh, great, just what we need: for hundreds of 13-year-olds to code up their own chat bots that scream l33tspeak at whomever messages them.
RotJApr 19, 2004 at 5:26PM
The sample bot they've got is broken because it pulls quotes from a dead website that got bought by a domain squatter.
Peter CooperApr 19, 2004 at 7:34PM
I think this whole idea is cool, just not this implementation of it ;-) It does get my award for being the most content-free programming related article I've ever read though. A lot of hot air, and 'download this script and er, just screw around with it till it works', lol. Doh!
barlowApr 21, 2004 at 8:59AM
Some cool opportunities are obvious - you could write a PERL interface to your email account and this is essentially P2P, so you could chat with your bot from the road and get key emails:
"Did i get a message from jon?"
CHATBOT: Yes
"show message from jon"
CHATBOT: Jon Wrote:
xxxxx
xxxx
xxxx
etc.
codeeApr 24, 2004 at 11:09PM
wow,,, what is this? lol sorry im stupid
This thread is closed to new comments. Thanks to everyone who responded.