Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 05:00:04 -0800 (PST) From: Bruce Gingery <bruce@gtcs.com> To: freebsd-ports Subject: Re: ports/2241: eggdrop - A special TCL tool - an IRC Robotic Client. Message-ID: <199702101300.FAA01221@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/2241; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Bruce Gingery <bruce@gtcs.com> To: bitblt@sky.net Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/2241: eggdrop - A special TCL tool - an IRC Robotic Client. Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 05:52:08 -0700 (MST) Having not received any mail (directly) either way about this protest, and not having time to follow freebsd-gnats, myself recently -- also seeing that the submitted port is still in "incoming/" ... I'm in the process of doing a v1.0o port, and eyeballing v1.1 which is currently in alpha. As for the permissability of running eggdrop or any other ircbot, that depends entirely upon the servers and nets to which it connects (unless run JUST for its own "botnet" capacities). Frankly I'm wondering whether to upload it to freebsd incoming/, or merely post it off for inclusion on ftp://ftp.sodre.net/pub/eggdrop/ports - which already has mirroring all over the world. As for the comments quoted below, a perusal of the eggdrop author's homepage http://www.valuserve.com/~robey/eggdrop/ will show that will show that there are SIX IRC OPERs running them on EFnet, in addition to "common users". "Buenissa" monitors and answers newbie questions in Undernet's #FreeBSD ( http://gtcs.com/Buenissa ) and has for about six months. <BLOCKQUOTE> Dominion Net (35 bots) mostly Canadian EFnet (no flood or warez bots allowed) will only link bots from recognized channels, who are approved on their respective IRC server(s) (6 bots are owned by EFnet IRC opers) ... EGGnet ... 70 bots GayNET/Alkienet 38 bots EspanNet 35 bots Russian Botnet 80 bots SubmissionNet 11 bots WarezNet 52 bots TrekNet 5 bots FishNet 6 bots (act as an interactive concordance, too) BongNet 23 bots FSnet 134 bots </BLOCKQUOTE> There are many botnets which have not been reported, as well. Buenissa currently links with 2 to seven other eggies in a botnet, from Spain to Los Gatos, Calif, to Indonesia. Can eggies be abused? Sure - I've seen warbots built on eggdrop, but also totally beneficial channel service bots. Any software can be turned to purposes not originally intended. Certainly FreeBSD itself could. I hope to hear back from someone that there *is* interest in this port in the FreeBSD hierarchy. I've held back on a port of 1.0n partially because of the apparent "lack of interest", and on cleaning up a port of ircu, as well. Bruce Gingery <bgingery@gtcs.com> Undernet: "Clue" On Sun, 2 Feb 1997 bitblt@sky.net wrote: -}Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 15:07:07 +0000 -}From: bitblt@sky.net -}To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, bgingery@gtcs.com -}Subject: Re: ports/2241: eggdrop - A special TCL tool - an IRC Robotic Client. -} -}Running this package is a good way to get your site banned from many irc -}servers. I therefore urge the FreeBSD team to OMIT this package from -}the FreeBSD distribution. -}
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