0x0000 wrote:
> On Sep 25, 3:48 am, Her Illustrious Ashes
> wrote:
>> Orson Wells as CitizenCain wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> "Will Dockery" wrote in message
>>> news:71c52$48d6e5dd$4b4c71e9$28588@KNOLOGY.NET...
>>>> "Orson Wells as CitizenCain" wrote:
>>>>> "Will Dockery" wrote:
>>>>>>> news:7a98a866-fdb7-4f7b-aaff-f9e167716660@b1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>>>>>>> Little Homeless Clown
>>>>>>> So I been out rambling
>>>>>>> shambling
>>>>>>> through the trailer park 'til dawn.
>>>>>> That's the closest to an autobiography you'll get, Dockery.
>>>>>> A part of it, yes.
>>>>> God damn bum. Get a haircut, loser.
>>>> Your odd obsession with my appearance is noted...
>>> There's no obsession. I'm telling you that you look like a .in' serial
>>> killer and need a haircut.
>> Damn, why don't you lighten up a little? Your obsession is starting to
>> sound like hate crime.
>
> Has anyone else thought of - or tested - the idea that some of these
> seemingly automatic mono-postings that seem to respond unerringly to
> every post by certain individuals may be created by bots? I.E. NNTP
> parsing/posting scripts that require no human intervention to plaster
> the drivel/spam into the groups? I find it almost inconceivable that
> an actual human would spend most of every day e.g. ferreting out every
> post by Will Dockery on Usenet, and replying to them each with non-
> sensical one-liners that mean nothing to anyone. I, personally, would
> write a script to that before I would waste the time require for 3 or
> 4 hundred posts of that nature per day. Of course, I strongly
> suspect that Will is actually a bot, himself, since he does seem to
> hit them back each and everyone, himself. Kinda sad, imo, that Will
> continues to believe that these posts come from a person at a keyboard
> - he tries so hard to get them to make sense, and doesn't seem to
> understand why they don't yield to reason and logic.
I wouldn't go quite so far as to assume the person is a bot, no, but I
guess it's always possible. I'm not convinced that a simple script would
pull it off. There is at least some Artificial Intelligence behind the
posts and I would venture to guess there would need be at least one
server dedicated to such human-machine like interaction or an algorithm
based program running that uses at least some basic logic. In general, I
try not to imagine others at the other end of the computer too much, but
impressions do slip in on occasion; in the case of that which goes by
the name Barbara's Cat, I have spontaneously imagined a giant Panda
eating bamboo leaves sitting quietly by a terminal posting links at
random. It can be a little disquieting. |
