Wow..bloggerbot was down for over a week. AOL mucked with the TOC protocol, and it took this long for the developer of Net::AOLIM to fix it. Fear not, the bots are back up and running. thanks for your patience!
posted by Philip Fibiger at 10:59 AM

Sorry for the big delay...the /password command is finally working correctly, so now if you change your password at blogger.com, you'll be able to use bloggerbot by just typing /password OLDPASS NEWPASS where OLDPASS is the password you used to use for blogger (the one that bloggerbot knows) and NEWPASS is the one that you changed it to. Pretty simple..as always, email me if you have any questions or run into any problems.
posted by Philip Fibiger at 1:10 AM

With this hack of Blogger.com, people are going to be changing their blog passwords. Right now I don't have any functionality for you to change what password bloggerbot uses, so it won't work for you if you've changed your password. you can either email me and I'll remove your account so you can re-register, or you can wait a few days and I'll add /password functionality
posted by Philip Fibiger at 11:32 AM

/lastfive does in fact work..the problem with it was related to the blogger xml-rpc server, and that seems to have been fixed. I'm going to add an alternate login syntax for people with passwords w/ spaces in them, hopefully it'll be added in the next few days, i'll post here when it's finished.
posted by Philip Fibiger at 7:55 PM

ok, i've moved to a new colocation host, the old one had messed with a firewall or switch in such a way that bloggerbot couldn't log on. everything should have straightened out. i think that /lastfive is still broken, i'll try to fix it in the next few days. as always, just read the instructions if you want to know how to use the bot.
posted by Philip Fibiger at 5:37 PM

I apologize greatly for the downtime, BloggerBot is back up and running again. I'm going to implement the pseudo blocking in the old version, and keep that running until i can get the new oscar login module working correctly..people will probably still be able to warn the bot off the network, but it shouldn't happen as much, and hopefully it'll keep dropping off until people decide it's not worth making new screennames to harass it.

anyway, as always, since i'm adding new features/testing, let me know if you find any bugs.

Thanks for being patient!
posted by Philip Fibiger at 12:42 AM

Sorry the bot hasn't been up in the past day. I've ported it to yet another perl module, Net::OSCAR, in hopes of having denying work. If that doesn't, I have a plan for faking banning myself, so I don't have to rely on the AIM functionality.


In unrelated news, AOL seems to have (hopefully temporarily) banned all bots from my server. If/When this ends, I'll bring it right back up.
posted by Philip Fibiger at 9:51 AM