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Originally Posted by Littlejohn
I'm not sure it would work. You'd have to set the chance of getting a "correct" number pretty high to get any bot to respond at all, but then you've also got a very good chance for multiple bots to respond.
It's the birthday paradox at work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_paradox
I would be really annoyed if 2 or 3 bots replied with an answer every time a question was asked.
Just go with token ring. You're trying to do ethernet... 
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Oddly enough, that's exactly what I had in mind when I was writing up the idea.
And if two or three bots reply, just display one... if you're using an addon that masks the channel and displays the information (CTA, Cosmos, and PlayerMerchant I believe all use this), you don't really have a problem with /seeing/ more than one reply, just the server overhead.