Spammy announcer bot on #bzr yesterday

[Martin Pool]

Well, thanks anyhow for setting it up, and for fixing it.


On 3/15/08, Elliot Murphy <elliot at canonical.com> wrote:
> I'd like to apologize to everyone who was on #bzr yesterday. I started
> an instance of a bot that announces PQM commit emails onto IRC. I've
> been running this bot for months on a Canonical internal IRC server for
> announcing commits on some internal trees, and have not seen any
> problems, so when Martin mentioned that it would be nice to set up for
> #bzr, I did so very quickly, saw one message get announced, and headed
> off for the evening. Looking at the backlog, I see that something went
> wrong, the bot started spamming the channel, and was ultimately banned.
>
> Sorry for the noise.
> --
> Elliot Murphy | https://launchpad.net/~statik/
>
>


-- 
Martin