Re: [backstage] IM Persian news bot

2006-03-08 Thread Dan Brickley
* Tom Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-08 17:03-] > wow. much, much respect Mario... +1 Yes, this is wonderful, and I've heard only positive feedback so far. It'd be great to see this go into (some level of) production usage. (I'd be happy to help in any way...) cheers, Dan - Sent

RE: [backstage] IM Persian news bot

2006-03-08 Thread Tom Loosemore
wow. much, much respect Mario... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mario MentiSent: 07 March 2006 14:40To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukCc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ian ForresterSubject: [backstage] IM Persian news bot Following a conversation with Dan Brickley, who

Re: [backstage] IM Persian news bot

2006-03-08 Thread Dan Brickley
Side thought: I tried the bot in an MSN group chat with some friends. Apart from fact that it currently responds to all user text as if they were attempted bot commands, it worked just fine. Nice way to have folks talk about the news, maybe? (for the generic bot too, not just the Persian one...)

[backstage] IM Persian news bot

2006-03-07 Thread Mario Menti
Following a conversation with Dan Brickley, who pointed me to Ian Forrester's post on BBC Persian being filtered in Iran (see http://www.cubicgarden.com/blojsom/blog/cubicgarden/culture/?permalink=BBC-Persian-filtered-out-of-Iran-what-can-we-do.html), I am now running a first version of a Persia