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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>bot</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="borken.html" title="borken"/><link rel="next" href="bottom-feeder.html" title="bottom feeder"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bot</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="borken.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bottom-feeder.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bot"/><dt xmlns="" id="bot"><b>bot</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common on IRC, MUD and among gamers; from “<span class="quote">robot</span>”]
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</p></dd><dd><p> 1. An <a href="../I/IRC.html"><i class="glossterm">IRC</i></a> or <a href="../M/MUD.html"><i class="glossterm">MUD</i></a> user
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who is actually a program. On IRC, typically the robot provides some
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useful service. Examples are NickServ, which tries to prevent random users
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from adopting <a href="../N/nick.html"><i class="glossterm">nick</i></a>s already claimed by others, and
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MsgServ, which allows one to send asynchronous messages to be delivered
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when the recipient signs on. Also common are ‘annoybots’, such
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as KissServ, which perform no useful function except to send cute messages
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to other people. Service bots are less common on MUDs; but some others,
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such as the ‘Julia’ bot active in 1990--91, have been
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remarkably impressive Turing-test experiments, able to pass as human for as
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long as ten or fifteen minutes of conversation. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. An AI-controlled player in a computer game (especially a
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first-person shooter such as Quake) which, unlike ordinary monsters,
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operates like a human-controlled player, with access to a player's weapons
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and abilities. An example can be found at <a href="http://www.telefragged.com/thefatal/" target="_top">http://www.telefragged.com/thefatal/</a>.
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</p></dd><dd><p> 3. Term used, though less commonly, for a web
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<a href="../S/spider.html"><i class="glossterm">spider</i></a>. The file for controlling spider behavior on
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your site is officially the “<span class="quote">Robots Exclusion File</span>” and its
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URL is “<span class="quote">http://<somehost>/robots.txt</span>”)</p></dd><dd><p>Note that bots in all senses were ‘robots’ when the terms
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first appeared in the early 1990s, but the shortened form is now
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habitual.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="borken.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bottom-feeder.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">borken </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bottom feeder</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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