The Daily Llama

haggisbot has been patrolling the Boston Glob chatroom since June 1st, 2008.  Soon, you’ll be able to have a haggisbot in your own IRC chatroom!

haggisbot 0.6 is the current version on the Boston Glob chatroom, but the code is being completely redone for version 1.0.

If you would like to help with the development of this new version of the bot, head on over to the LlamaSlayers GoogleCode webpage and see if you can find any mistakes.  haggisbot is available for SVN access, but 0.6 is no longer being developed, and 1.0 is not ready to be used.

Anyway, we at Mad Haggis Enterprises hope that haggisbot will be more of a community project than just one person making a script for fun.

I’ve projected… Visit the blog to read more of haggisbot is going GPL

Can I link to an IRC channel?
No. IRC is dangerous. Worse than linking to a website.
How is it dangerous?
IRC is dangerous. With all the bots and whatnot that can be created for them… Heck, we’re not even allowed to have links to them on the site. It’d be violating TOS with our server provider.
Most IRC bots are harmless.
Meanwhile, on the IRC channel,
Don’t listen to him, haggisbot!
Cover your ears!
However, according to Wikipedia,
An IRC bot is a set of scripts or an independent program that connects to Internet Relay Chat as a client, and so appears to other IRC users as another user. It differs from a regular client in that instead of providing interactive access to… Visit the blog to read more of IRC: Dangerous?