Sorry, I really should of posted this earlier, but I'm drunk again.

I managed to get quite a lot of Mortimer's bot to compile and run by commenting parts out and planting links in various places. It's very Usenet-specific, and some of it expects to be run on an NNTP server: do such things even exist nowadays?

Anyways, to precis a long and tbh exhausting session (pasted from another window):

Script started on Fri Oct  3 23:20:55 2014
daisy% gdmc^Gore
[X ^ P: starting gdmcore 6.4]

checking environment... passed.
checking databases... not found.

Database open failed.
daisy% gdmcore blah
unrecognised operation, -h for help

So, help is available. What it doesn't mention is that when it says "checking environment", it's actually adding stuff to your .bash_profile, which doesn't work and logs you out instead.

daisy% gdmcore ESC[K-h
usage: gdmcore -h | [-vnixec] [bot botargs]
               -v = verbose
               -n = dry run
               -i = interactive
               -x = don't open databases
               -e = extended processing (use with care)
               -c = single shot command
               -h = this helpful message

This is gdmcore V6.4, another fine product from XenoPsyche, Inc.

Pretty obvious what I tried next.

daisy% gdmcore -x
[X ^ P: starting gdmcore 6.4]

checking environment... passed.
database checking disabled.
checking authorisation... not authorised!

enter service key: ^C
daisy% exit

Script done on Fri Oct  3 23:21:18 2014
daisy%

I suppose I have no idea what to do with this. Any suggestions welcome.

OK, I admit it, it's like an itch. I've been messing about with Mortimer's bot. I'll post about that later, but although it hasn't done anything interesting yet, it's somehow locked me out of daisy. Have to get in on the console!