From scratch, or using Francois Stephany's IRCbot?

frank

On 2011/02/24 17:28, Simon Michael wrote:
> Hi Alexandre.. I think it's a good idea. I've added squeakquorabot,
> which polls hourly and will announce new questions (and hopefully not
> updated ones, we'll see.)
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> (Also I've made squeaksobot poll stack overflow hourly instead of every
> six hours. This one does announce old updated questions as well as new
> ones, but I think this is a small enough problem to ignore.)
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> Don't let this stop you writing a smarter squeak-based bot, or reviving
> an existing one; it's a nice real-world project.
>
> Cheers - Simon (sm)
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> On Feb 24, 2011, at 2:02 AM, Alexandre Jasmin wrote:
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>> Hello Simon,
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>> Ken Causey on IRC tells me that you are running the squeaksobot on the
>> #squeak IRC channel.
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>> I think its a good way for the Squeak community to notice questions
>> from Stackoverflow and help us reach a wider audience.
>>
>> I also noticed that some Smalltalk questions have been posted on the
>> general Q&A site Quora.
>>
>> There is an RSS feed at http://www.quora.com/Smalltalk/rss
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>> Though there are only a few questions so far I think they don't get
>> much visibility. It could be interesting to see future questions from
>> Quora on the IRC channel as well so that qualified people can get to
>> them.
>>
>> I was thinking about writing such a bot myself but your squeaksobot
>> may already be able to post entries from other RSS feeds.
>>
>>
>> What do you think?
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