
It has a massive collection of functions that can be seen in the BotNET man pages.

With a Botnet, even if an IRC bot dies, here still remains the rest of the bots on the Botnet to continue maintaining the channel and the loss of the one bot means nothing as the other bots do its exact same job.īotNET is an extremely powerful IRC BOT and has many features.īotNET doesn't necessarily have to run as a Botnet, it can run as a normal IRC bot and in fact does this by default. Immediately the channel becomes chaotic and anarchic without an IRC bot keeping the peace. Say, for instance, you have one IRC bot keeping a channel and a netsplit occurs or the bot dies for some reason. They are useful for keeping and maintaining a channel by acting as a group of channel bots that work together with a common goal.

They share a means of communication whereby all bots speak to one another and exchange information. It is a network of IRC bots that communicate with one another.
