drones are 9 char nicks but r random in there number of letters an numbers
Consider this pattern then,
/^[a-z0-9]{9}$/Other points to keep in mind...
- Do they always have a tilde ~ in their ident?
- Is their ident or real name always in the same length?
- Any similarity between their nicks and idents?
- Any similarity between their realname and nicks and/or idents?
- Does their host always appear as a numeric, unresloved IP?
If the answer to any of these question is
yes, please paste us a small log with WHO or WHOIS output of these bots and we might come up with a tighter way of identifying them.
Good luck