Greetings VCV,

Yes, a moment of brevity VCV, when I posted, NO AI Bot scripts?' your reply 'That's quite a statement to make MDA'. Yes VCV it is and perhaps will help force the mIRC issue as to 'where they are'. There are indeed some IRC chatterbots and some IRC hybrid AI engines. Are there mIRC chatterbots and mIRC hybrid AI engines thou?

Its very likely some early mIRC scripters converted over some old renditions of Eliza, however I'm not certain nor able to state that mIRC's string handling capability's would be powerful enough to process that primal form of AI. I suspect that it is and someone in the past has done so.

I am aware of one mIRC script which is commercially availiable which locks onto a chat visitor in a whispered chat mode. I haven't seen that script in action however I suspect that entire script is largely designed just for that single task with very few bells and whistles regarding channel protection, etc. That mIRC scripts apparent purpose is to attract chat visitors, engage them in a whispered conversation and hash the text string data back and forth using whispered windows to seperate who is stating what.

And that is likely the closest, one is able to currently come to a mIRC AI script that i'm aware of.

The link to that whisper mode mIRC chatterbot is this http://www.frontiernet.net/~wcowart/sale.html Yes that is a commercial website. I don't know them, I'm not endorsing them or selling this item. I'm including this link to help answer my reply to VCV.

Several months ago when I began earnestly searching for the rather illusive mIRC AI script or mIRC Bot, the problem I ran nearly immediately into was the mention of MSN to IRC AI Bot programmers. Everyone of them refused to be involved, either thru a clear unbashed dislike for msn outright (unix and pearl programmers mainly) or as one IBM staff programmer (and IRC Bot author/programmer) told me a concern of litigation and liability from msn against them. The discussion would go from slight changes in the IRC code to mIRC to MSN then almost immediately to NO, can't, won't.

Several of the early prototypes of those IRC AI Bots were written in Java which they had then converted over to C++, Unix, or Pearl to implement the IRC handling routines. Yes, I have knocked on quite a few doors searching for a AI mIRC script.

If there's one out there in the wilde, I hope to hear from them and obtain a copy if possible to work on.

Best Regards,
MDA