Who Maintains the IRC Bots? reddit / irc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ruke_Unlimited · 2023-01-20 22:26 I'm specifically wondering about the book bots. Phoomphy in particular. It's in several channels, but no one seems to know who maintains it - no one I've been able to find, anyway. I'm trying to find out how/where it stores its files. Someone has suggested it's a P2P system, but it's too consistent for that to be the case. If anyone can point me in the right direction, that would be awesome. Thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- gunfart · 2023-01-20 23:34 what network are you talking about? there are hundreds if not thousands out there ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IvyCainTS · 2023-01-20 23:37 The whole point of the bots is their anonymity, so even if someone did know they are very unlikely to tell unless you are high up in their inner circles. Every server sets a few basic rules, then the people that create and setup the channels have their own subset of rules and protocols they follow, some work solo, others work in groups, some have scene partners. Normally those that are in the know wait to see if someone sets up their own channel and sees what they are sharing, then over time if you are consistent they'll sometimes come in to give your channel a boost. That's how it used to be anyway, been a good few years since I served files on IRC so it may of changed a bit since. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ArlenM · 2023-01-20 23:48 Bots were almost never hosted on the same server as the channel they were bots for, so it’s most likely running in the background on some forgotten server somewhere and whoever put it there quit years ago…. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sincosis · 2023-01-21 00:35 Likely undernet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sincosis · 2023-01-21 00:37 Most of these bots are running on secondary machines owned by a user on the channels, you'll likely find that the bots running on an old school xdcc style of P2P delivery method. I know of several bots that contain up to 3TB of just books content. These are being constantly updated by users and in some instances groups that upload to an FTP that is directly responsible for updating the bot . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- gunfart · 2023-01-21 00:38 hot damn, that's a network i haven't joined in a looooong time ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sincosis · 2023-01-21 00:38 It's almost dead .. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- McGoodotnet · 2023-01-21 06:40 Ask the rooter. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ruke_Unlimited · 2023-01-21 07:15 Do you have any idea where the book content is being stored? Like I said, I'd like to look into doing some sort of Discord integration for it. It seems that it would be a lot more practical since people who know how to use IRC are a dying breed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sincosis · 2023-01-21 09:34 I believe I mentioned it in my response, but I'll try to elaborate in a more concise manner. It's normally on a local hard drive on a secondary machine owned by the bots owner. You can read more about the dcc protocol and how it functions here https://modern.ircdocs.horse/dcc.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- t4hn · 2023-02-17 03:53 I believe you're talking about an fserv from ebooks on IrcHighway. I would suggest that you ask the @ops in the channel. You may have to filter out the fserv spam to have a coherent conversation though. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jefrendraehd · 2023-03-27 18:52 I've caught him online once in a while