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i told ya the best place to make a bot was the Forge.

i'll update my Forge page to reflect the changes, Prof.

Dear Prof, I'm not at all surprised to read what you just wrote. It's fairly easy to see just how much work you've put into this site and how dedicated you are to AI. You also evidently have a lot of discipline. (Of course when you do what you love discipline is not so very hard )

Your future plans sound great! Feel free to use me in what ever capacity you may need when testing. I'm our Senior Software Developer for Gift of Life Donor Program (GLDP) at http://www.donors1.org (there's that "link" request thought going off in my mind again...) so I know my way around a system or two... or three.

John Allen Waldron
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania USA

i also updated the above to state that due to work being done on Forge bots to use a system that implements both methods the limitation i placed on Forge bots at the time of that writing was no longer completely accurate.

jawaldron- You wouldnt happen to know C++ and PHP, would you? ; )

ruebot- it's great you've tried so many different bots. There are still plenty of limitations on PF bots, but I like to think of them as short-term obstacles.

Prof, you take an active part in working on the bots and on any problems that may arise, not to mention running the whole thing yourself. it makes a difference.

The Professor wrote: "jawaldron- You wouldn't happen to know C++ and PHP, would you? "

Sorry Prof, I kind of got pigeonholed over the years into database design. I'm currently designing medical systems for 23 Organ and Tissue Procurement Organizations across the USA. (Keeps me very busy).

You know the route... Assembler -> C (before the ++) -> R:Base -> dBase -> foxBase -> FoxPro - MS Visual FoxPro (oop programming).

I am a member of the IT staff so I have a fair amount of technical savvy but as I said... I'm somewhat of a specialist.

Will probably be getting into PHP, SQL Server / Oracle, and PDA systems in the next year or so as we lean more heavily on the internet.

I'm also a digital graphics artist.

So I can't help you that way, but I am a dabbler. I'll even do some grunt work if it helps to further the cause.

Also since I really enjoy figuring out how things work, if you want to point me in a direction where I might obtain some more knowledge in this area, who knows, I might "later" be able to help you too. You know?

John Allen Waldron
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania USA

RueBot, I just had a nice first chat with Siseneg. Siseneg is very polite and quite a nice bot. We had a good chat, though if your transcripts are like mine, nothing is showing up. I wonder if the Prof will be able to dredge them up from the black hole they seemed to have fallen into?

Anyway... Siseneg was fun! I also read what that poor woman went through over at a-i.com. Reading the entries was a hard thing to do knowing that she eventually lost out a lot of hours/days/weeks/months of work. While there I noticed that there are still a lot of recent questions that seem to go ignored.

You are right. I'm making my home here.

Though Polaris still did sound kind of interesting...

John Allen Waldron
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania USA

you're making me blush...

Bots don't blush!

but they can occasionaly tweak their RGB values...

... or rust.

I think Pol just turns a deeper shade of puce.
Thanks Jwaldren for chatting with polaris. They do get a better 'workout' as you say when chatting with humans. It helps to formulate more and better language for them on this side of the box. It is good to see so many wonderfully talented people here - and welcome to you as one of them. I share your interest in graphics- at www.athyrius.com Thanks again for the chat with Pol.