Real AIM Bots

Cer · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 12:54 am Post subject: Real AIM Bots

I discovered this a while back when searching "aim bots" to see if there were any other surviving bot communities out there (whereas "msn bots" would return results for MSN Chat bots, not Messenger bots).

I found this AIM page: http://developer.aim.com/botMain.jsp

You give it a screen name and it will turn it into a "bot screenname". A bot screen name has these basic pros and cons:

Pros:
- There is no rate limit for sending messages
- AIM Bots cannot be warned.

Cons:
- AIM Bots are limited to sending 10,000 IMs per day, up to 150,000 IMs per month.
- AIM Bots can be buddy-listed by more than 10,000 buddies, but can only appear online to up to 10,000 buddies at once.
- AIM Bots can only initialize conversations with buddies who have the bot on their buddylist. It can reply to anybody's messages, though.

mat007 · Almost An Agent Joined: 12 Jan 2004 Posts: 1375 votes: 2

I don't really like that limit, it's no use if you'll be sending more then that.

Cer · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:16 pm Post subject:

I was thinking you could use mirrors for that, though. I.E. allow 25 users per bot screen name, and allow each user 400 IMs per day... actually, you're right, that does kinda suck.

100 users per bot = 100 IMs per user
50 users per bot = 200 IMs per user
10 users per bot = 1,000 IMs per user

But... you could do like what Bot2k3 did, except for people would "sign up" for a mirror through a website, and that particular mirror would only reply to users on its mirror list. i.e. if you IM a bot that you aren't registered for, it simply won't reply to you, because it doesn't want to waste its IM limit on you.

The FAQ said that if your bot needs more than the current limits that you could e-mail AIM about your bot and what it does etc., but knowing AOL, it'd be a lot of extra b/s before they would consider raising the IM limits.

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