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1997-03-14 - Re: Is Graham-John’s inane spam robogenerated?

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From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
To: dthorn@gte.net
Message Hash: 0189f61bb059af54ea1459248f8debca2cb4aeefa07355b6b49ac01bb1740931
Message ID: <199703140332.VAA17635@manifold.algebra.com>
Reply To: <3328C5B6.E2E@gte.net>
UTC Datetime: 1997-03-14 03:42:19 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 19:42:19 -0800 (PST)

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From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 19:42:19 -0800 (PST)
To: dthorn@gte.net
Subject: Re: Is Graham-John's inane spam robogenerated?
In-Reply-To: <3328C5B6.E2E@gte.net>
Message-ID: <199703140332.VAA17635@manifold.algebra.com>
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stop spamming the list thorn

Dale Thorn wrote:
> 
> Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
> > ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home) writes:
> > > Dale Thorn wrote:
> > > > It was obvious to me (a native speaker) early on that the messages
> > > > from GB referring to Dr. Vulis were auto-generated.
> 
> > > i am sure they are not machine generated. the content is different
> > > every time, plus it srt of depends on the context to which he is replying.
> > > like, if vulis's article is about sexual perversions, GB calls him a
> > > pervert.
> 
> > I've been writing a program (in C, actually, although perl might be
> > a good tool for strings and such :-) that would scan Usenet newsgroups
> > for trigger keywords and generate randomized follow-ups depending on
> > what's been said. It's a big project; I hoped to have it done by
> > April 1st, but it'll definitely take longer.
> 
> I could write what GB's auto-postings were doing in a handful of
> hours.  It was painfully obvious, i.e., it was obvious that GB would
> no more take the time to hand type those inane contentless replies
> than Gilmore would take the time to hand inspect c-punks messages.
> 
> Before the modern DOS word processors came along, text parsers for
> formatting and printing were a dime a dozen, and GB's parser gave
> no signs of being anything beyond the simplest one-phrase reply 'bot.
> 



	- Igor.

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