Re: [SLUG] Re: Suggestions for SLUG server

[Tom Massey <tmas5640@nospam.mail.usyd.edu.au>]

Grant Parnell wrote:
> > Sounds suspiciously like a few of the IRC bots I've seen around (I've only
> > recently started using IRC, so maybe someone else has some cool examples).
> 
> Yes I guess so. Does anyone remember the internet Oracle (and I don't
> mean the database company). You'd ask it a question by email and in
> return you'd have to answer someone else's question but you never knew
> who answered your question, it was just 'the oracle'.

Oh yes!! I remember the Internet Oracle with lots of joy. Has it
actually gone away, or just been misplaced? Haven't tried since '94 or
so. And I think that a similar system might work for Slug - IIRC you'd
send a question into a central server which would then send out your
question to somebody who had asked a question recently, who would then
attempt to answer your question - if they left it too long I think your
question got reprocessed and sent out to somebody else. In return you
got sent a question to answer. Very cool stuff! :-)
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