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30 November 2007

Attention, IRC bunnies! This can only end in tears.
Nearly two decades worth of data contained on IRC servers has effectively been lost. IRSeek wants to make sure that future conversations are properly indexed and and searchable. It’s a huge untapped knowledge-basecesspool.

fixed that for them.
posted by quonsar 30 November | 21:35
"proper indexing" means it vanishes after I say it.
posted by Doohickie 30 November | 21:48
And here we thought it was creepy when users idled overnight instead of signing off when they left.
posted by kyleg 30 November | 22:03
Bastards.
posted by BoringPostcards 30 November | 22:11
Well -- is there anything we can do? Anything similar to a "robots.txt" file for web sites?

I mean -- how dare they?
posted by psho 30 November | 22:14
i'm changing my handle to psho. problem solved.
posted by quonsar 30 November | 22:27
I saw that a while ago and went searching on IRSeeK for "wendell" and "mefi" and found NOTHING from Slashnet, no #bunnies, no #mefi.

I did find one familiar name from #bunnies in another channel on another network...

Channel: wordpress
IRC Network: Freenode
Captured on: 08/04/2007
(Eurodate, so it's April 8th)
XXXXX(redacted): dude, mefi is so lame. it's like high school or anything else in life. you write a funny one-liner and people vote it up. you deliver a superbrillious synthesizing exegis and people scroll by.

posted by wendell 30 November | 22:41
For the record (or the paranoid) - that indexer, it ain't me. I do idle overnight, though...
posted by sysinfo 30 November | 23:34
"I do idle overnight, though..." Not if I'm in there :P
posted by arse_hat 30 November | 23:36
Not if I'm in there :P Well, you're not there now, so nyah! /me idles furiously. wait, it's not working!
posted by sysinfo 30 November | 23:39
THIS KICK'S FOR YOU, ARSE_HAT! ::kicks sysinfo::
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 01 December | 00:05
WooHoo TPS!!!!
*a toast and a kiss*
posted by arse_hat 01 December | 00:08
Well -- is there anything we can do?


We can have the channel be private- they're only indexing public channels. I thought it already was private, to be honest- but I checked tonight and it wasn't. So I moved it back to private. Any reason we shouldn't keep it private? #bunnies is, for all intents and purposes, a private channel- it's a function of Metachat (albeit an unofficial one), not an open discussion center. Given the private nature conversations can sometimes take, I think it best we keep the channel private.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 01 December | 00:14
Huh, wait- the channel is already listed as "secret". Is that better than "private"? Or, more importantly, is it enough to keep the channel out of "public" indexing? IRC confuses me.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 01 December | 00:17
I believe that secret is better: difference here. I attempted a /olivebranch tag there, but it wouldn't let me.
posted by sysinfo 01 December | 00:41
How about "double secret probation"? That sounds more official.

Quonsar: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
posted by psho 01 December | 18:39
if it's private, do we need permission to enter?

it's weird, because in my lifetime i have shared/said things on irc that i certainly would not want repeated all over the web. like, when a room only has three or four people in it and you know all of them personally, which is something that used to happen quite a lot when i was a mod on bandchat. thank god that was never indexed. jesus.
posted by brina 01 December | 19:15
good news / bad news. || TV Trivia Question:

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