From: Earle Martin Date: 23:46 on 27 Sep 2003 Subject: BitchX A paste of something that just happened says all: 23:16 -!- UnderMine [~UnderMine@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xxxxxxx.xxx.xx.xx] has quit [Quit: User pushed the X - because it's Xtra, baby] 23:17 <@hex> isn't there a --not-retard flag you can give to BX to turn off those stupid fucking messages? 23:19 <@hex> That and another couple of dozen stupid /quit messages 23:20 <@hex> they're almost funny the first time, but not then the next $inf times when more than one person is producing them 23:21 * DrHyde considers BitchX authors to be only a small step up from those anti-virus scum 23:23 <@Kake> You could just configure it. 23:23 <@Kake> But I keep saying this, and nobody ever does. This post has been brought to you by the low-effort hate department.
From: Nicholas Clark Date: 23:50 on 27 Sep 2003 Subject: Re: BitchX On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 11:46:07PM +0100, Earle Martin wrote: > This post has been brought to you by the low-effort hate department. "We were going to do hates-apathy.com but then we found that we really could be bothered" ? Meanwhile, www.hates-verisign.com is already up and running. Nicholas Clark
From: Gavin Estey Date: 23:59 on 27 Sep 2003 Subject: Re: BitchX On Saturday, September 27, 2003, at 06:46 PM, Earle Martin wrote: > A paste of something that just happened says all: > > [snip] File under "perfectly good software* that has fucking dumb default settings". An all too common occurrence. Gavin * HA-HA!
From: Phil!Gregory
Date: 14:43 on 28 Sep 2003
Subject: Re: BitchX
* Earle Martin <hates-software@xxxxxxxx.xxx> [2003-09-27 23:46 +0100]:
> [BitchX's quit messages]
Not to mention the fact that it has bloody stupid default settings.
(Okay, Gavin already mentioned them.) Perhaps things like "auto-kick
after too many nick changes" and "auto-kick after too many /me statements
because they look like a CTCP flood" and "auto-kick someone who just
deopped three people because the BitchX authors are paranoid and worried
they they'll be next" and {rest skipped for brevity} are all well and good
in actively hostile IRC environments, but they're really annoying in more
friendly places.
> 23:23 <@Kake> You could just configure it.
> 23:23 <@Kake> But I keep saying this, and nobody ever does.
That's because it's impossible to figure out how to do it. BitchX is
"documented" in about twelve different places, most of those being hidden
somewhere or other on the web. I used to use BitchX. I tried to figure
out how to stop it from misbehaving. I ended up deciding it was easier to
switch IRC clients than figure out how to configure BitchX. I suppose
it's easier to write quit messages than consistent documentation.
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