Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!diku!ambush!storm
From: storm@ambush.UUCP (Kim F. Storm)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Non-human posters
Message-ID: <575@ambush.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 88 17:58:16 GMT
Organization: AmbraSoft A/S (Denmark)
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In a recent article reid@decwrl.DEC.COM (Brian Reid) writes:
>The arbitron data from the following sites is more than 75 days old, and has
>therefore been discarded.
>(End of article!)

Was this article really from Brian, or has he given his *dumb* machine
access to post to net all by itself?

How many of these non-human posters are there on the net?

I can think of four kinds of useful non-human posters:
- Gateways from mailing lists to news groups
- Posting of some statistical data at regular intervals
- Posting 'introduction to news' every two weeks.
- Non-human News group moderators

The last kind could perhaps be useful on some groups when the (human)
moderator is on holiday, but I cannot imagine that there are any of
these working full-time.

Are there other kinds around (or will there be?)

I would like to collect a list of all these auto-posters, so if you know of
any, please tell me about them.  If possible, include an estimate of how
often and how much they post.

Are there any non-human readers out there (yet) ?  (-:

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