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Ironically, #gayteen on EFNet was killed (closed out, locked and nobody ever came back) by a team of eggdrops. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Orbital (talk • contribs) 04:19, 26 December 2005 (UTC).

Hoax

Ben Dover? That has to be fake. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 134.48.103.32 (talk • contribs) 16:19, 4 February 2006 (UTC).

How much of the history in this article can be verified?

Although it may sound funny, it's true. And according to the history of Eggdrop, the information about #GayTeen is correct. Nothing in the Eggdrop article is a hoax or a prank, I have correctly sourced the information and proven its validity. - File:Ottawa flag.png nath a nrdotcom 00:00, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
...and I don't know why it keeps getting removed and restored, it's a fact. — nath a nrd o tcom 22:14, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Developers

List of developers/contributors was removed? Damn I felt so proud being there, c'mon =))) Takeda 06:03, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes, but what is it?

Speaking as someone not familiar with Eggdrop or IRC: Could someone please include a jargon-free note at the beginning of this article on just what Eggdrop is/does? (Misplaced Pages:Explain_jargon#Subject-specific_terms). Thanks. -- 201.37.229.117 (talk) 06:29, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

«Eggdrop is a popular IRC bot.» the page says. One can follow the See also links to IRC bot and Internet Relay Chat. So I don't really see what you expect the page to say? -- skiidoo (talk) 17:42, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

1.6.18 version

Just updated with the 1.6.18 update --83.88.93.252 10:37, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

That's not right. It's not out yet.--BarkerJr 02:29, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Censorship of #gayteen in article

Mention of the EFNet channel #gayteen in the article has been censored many times by different people with various supposed reasons. I'm including additional references below that would be difficult to include as inline citations.

Search Engine Test

Editors should note that this passage easily passes the search engine test.

Google search for "eggdrop" "gayteen"

Valis

Valis was the name of Robey Pointer's #gayteen Eggdrop bot (see below).

Valis and #gayteen are mentioned in Wired 4.04: Bots Are Hot! p.5

ABOUT file

While the ABOUT file included with Eggdrop itself is probably about as authoritative as it gets, it is also possible to find reference to EFNet #gayteen in very old versions of Eggdrop itself.

Many old versions of Eggdrop are available via the Eggheads FTP server.

Notable versions

Eggdrop version 0.7d (released April 11, 1994)

From the file 'sample.config' contained in the 0.7c source archive:

# configuration file for Valis
# (eggdrop 0.7)

# username for user@host
user valis
# real name field (inconsequential, really)
realname the divine invasion
# make a log file?  what's it called?
logfile gayteen.log
# these are dynamic (ie, chan be changed and rehashed)
channel #gayteen
nick Valis

# where to store user records:
userfile gayteen.user
# who's running this damn bot?
admin Reid (reid@boss.math.uic.edu), Robey (rpointe@eng.clemson.edu)

Eggdrop version 0.9r (released December 1, 1995)

From the file 'eggdrop.doc' contained in the 0.9r source archive:

If you have questions or comments about this file, please send me email
at <robey@lightning.net>.  Thanks.
(1) ABOUT EGGDROP
    Eggdrop was created around December 1993 to help stop the incessant
    wars on #gayteen.  It spawned from another bot I had been writing  
    at the time called "Unrest".  The purpose of Unrest was to answer  
    help requests from other bots (the equivalent of eggdrop's current 
    helpbot option).  The first public release was (I think) v0.6, and 
    it's grown a lot since then.

Tothwolf (talk) 00:07, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

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