Hi all. Not sure if anyone cares, but anyway:
I came across scrutator.lo2k.net today. The website describes itself as follows: === cut === My goal is to follow irc links trends like digg or del.icio.us but with a certain difference. User will not provide new links but an irc bot will automatically register all new links. === cut === Besides the links as such the website also provides information about who posted the link, when and in which channel(s) it was posted, and eventually also in which context the link was posted there. It turned out that this bot is sitting in #madwifi, as well as in #trac (see [1]). The name of the bot (or IRC client which feeds the bot) is "[SkG]". Personally, I consider it a bad habit to silently park a bot in a channel without permission from the channel ops, even more if it leaks parts of the conversation held in that channel to some website. Ops should be allowed to learn more about what information is gathered and what it is used for, so that they can decide whether they allow the bot in the channel and inform users about it approprietly. For this reason I've decided to ban the bot from #madwifi, and I ask the #trac chanops to consider a similar step for #trac. Bye, Mike [1] http://scrutator.lo2k.net/Master/sortChannel/channel=%23trac -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-dev?hl=en.
