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From: Bruce Gingery <bruce@gtcs.com>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: ports/2241: eggdrop - A special TCL tool - an IRC Robotic Client. 
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Thanks, Jordan.  Will do as I can.  Meanwhile the '1.0m' version was far
more solid than previous versions which *needed* a cron job to restart
the bot when it died.  I significantly upgraded that script (so it would
work under FreeBSD's vixie-cron) and made that part of the port, but
fortunately haven't needed it execpt for auto-start of the bot following
the occasional reboot.

I quite agree that a tool is reasonably inanimate until someone puts it
in their hand and uses (or abuses) it.

	Bruce Gingery <bgingery@gtcs.com>

On Mon, 10 Feb 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

-}Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 11:13:58 -0800
-}From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
-}To: Bruce Gingery <bruce@gtcs.com>
-}Cc: freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org
-}Subject: Re: ports/2241: eggdrop - A special TCL tool - an IRC Robotic Client. 
-}
-}>  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.
-}
-}There is.  Please finish your work on the new version and I or someone
-}else will bring it into the ports collection.  I'm sorry that contraversy
-}over this one erupted and I think a tool is a tool - if someone abuses
-}it then that's hardly the tool's fault (he says, looking significantly
-}at a screwdriver on his desk which has performed great acts of good and
-}evil alike :-).
-}
-}						Jordan
-}