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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Non-human posters
Message-ID: <8582@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 88 21:48:50 GMT
References: <575@ambush.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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In article <575@ambush.UUCP> storm@ambush.UUCP (Kim F. Storm) writes:
< Are there other kinds around (or will there be?)

There was Mark V Shaney (sp?), which was a program that posted to the
net.  I think it was mostly in net.singles.  The articles it posted 
were very interesting.  They seemed to consist of parts of various
random articles from the group it was posting to.  They always almost
made sense ( sometimes more than the human posted articles ).

The rumor was that Peter Honeyman (sp?) was behind this.  I have also
heard that Rob Pike had something to do with it, but I may be confusing
this with something else that Rob Pike was doing.
-- 
Tim Smith, Knowledgian					tim@ism780c.isc.com
"O caritas, O caritas / nobis semper sit amor
 nos perituri mortem salutamus / sola resurgit vita" -- Cat Stevens