'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the net

Not a packet was traveling, not even an apt-get;

The topics were set by admins with care,

in hopes that someone who cared would be there;

The idlers were all snug in their beds,

While visions of oc-48 lines danced in their heads;

And flamers on their PC's, and I on my mac,

Had just settled a long flame war and went to nap;

When on the server there arose such a clatter,

Admins sprang to their computers to see what was the matter.

Away to my monitor I flew like a flash,

Turned on the power and moved the mouse.

The new-fallen packets of data

Gave the luster of mid-day activity,

When what to my wondering eyes should appear,

But a flood of CTCP packets and eight tiny spammers,

With intent to botnet old ladies and the lively and quick,

I knew in this moment that they must be random nicks

More rapid than wii shoppers they came,

and spammed their botnet irc server while the noob admin banned by name,

Banned, asdf1234! Banned, jkl;-988! Banned, titsrfun4758 and rofllamo5423!

Klined, frfdas4567! Glined, fgrti890! /kill, freuo49- an viagra4sale1245!

But I heard them exclaim in a flood of /part...