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Friday, November 30, 2007

IRSeeK.com provides searchable index of IRC transcripts

I just read a story on TechCrunch about an Israeli startup that is recording and indexing 2000+ irc channels and providing a means to search within them. There are two potential impacts that I see on this community: if you want to know what people were saying recently about Maddison or the Hymn of One, you can now do so without tapping everyone you know on the shoulder for a transcript. On the other hand, there is the semi-ephemeral quality of irc that allows for more, uh, shall we say, "off the cuff" conversation; as the TechCrunch writeup asserts, posterity could chill the freedom that currently pervades chat rooms.
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Note: just in case you might not think this would be effective I ran a test: http://www.irseek.com/result.php?keywords=maddison+atkins. Yikes! ~mm

Posted in the Comments by Heyaja:

heyaja said...

It is my understanding that this is against Freenode policy (the network on which our channels are hosted) and the staffers are working with the website to remove all Freenode material that is currently posted. In the meantime, we have identified one of the "bots" that was logging information in #maddison and I have banned that user. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Freenode policy.

5 comments:

  1. Thanks for posting.

    And here we were worried that information about redearth88 being lost in chat, lol.

    I don't think this will have much affect, but at least people are aware now that basically anything you do online can be made public.

    Maybe now we know what some of those random usernames in the chat are, lol.

    Modelmotion, you're a bot. Are your fellow bots spying on us? lol.

    Maybe someone can go index all of Clara's conversations in #maddison now. I think some are missing.

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  2. It is my understanding that this is against Freenode policy (the server on which our channels are hosted) and the staffers are working with the website to remove all Freenode material that is currently posted. In the meantime, we have identified one of the "bots" that was logging information in #maddison and I have banned that user. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. <3 Aja

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  3. And by server I meant network...

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