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- From: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
- Subject: Re: Useless Bots
- Message-ID: <avalon.712333504@coombs>
- Lines: 21
- Sender: news@newshost.anu.edu.au
- Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
- References: <1992Jul26.100255.8465@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> <Bs09A5.BnH@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <HROSE.92Jul26142104@eff.eff.org>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 14:25:04 GMT
-
- hrose@eff.org (Helen Trillian Rose) writes:
-
- [...]
- >Actually, a while back (say about 18mos-2 years), Chris Davis
- >(ckd@eff.org) and I wrote an automaton robot that would sit on a channel
- >and randomly say "I like [foobar] alot" where [foobar] was something
- >they saw that just went by in channel convo's. Alot of people *really
- >thought* that this robot was real.... that is, until the robot said "I
- >like Hitler alot" (there had been some conversation about WW-2). Quite a
- >giggle to see what people would believe...
-
- More recently, I just fired up a client with *1* /on and joined a couple
- of the more 'popular' (by population) channels.
-
- Granted it was a /on ctcp action, but there were numerous people who
- thought I was a robot...one person even sent me "help", "info".
-
- Was one of the funniest things I've ever seen :-D
-
- av
-