a ramblings
So I think we need bots. As a sitemember, you should be able to create different kinds of bots, a little like the xobot at CHXO. But that's a responder bot-- it listens for an incoming message and replies appropriately.
I want a bot that can perform arbitrary actions on a schedule. Look around for comments to reply to, pick a random image and email it to me, maybe even surf other sites and bring back what it finds.
The idea here is to use Berylium as a properties and scheduling framework for several flavors of bots. The flavors should be modular... well, we already have the folder-based context system. There's no reason they shouldn't be implemented exactly like xobot.
By Chris Snyder on February 1, 2003 at 3:19am