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- Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans,news.admin.policy,soc.culture.turkey
- Path: sparky!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!nyx!jfurr
- From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF)
- Subject: Re: le turkish net shenanigan in progress
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.111158.6793@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Followup-To: alt.fan.hasan-mutlu
- X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
- of Denver for the Denver community. The University has neither
- control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
- Keywords: turkey armenia
- Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account)
- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
- References: <1992Dec29.063322.14033@reed.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 11:11:58 GMT
- Lines: 20
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- In article <1992Dec29.063322.14033@reed.edu> kanderso@reed.edu (Karl Anderson) writes:
- >Now that all the blather about this so-called "net-shenanigan" has
- >died down, I believe it is time to inform the reader that such a
- >shenanigan is in progress as we speak! I refer, of course, to Serdan
- >Argic, an Artificial Insulter who is currently plaguing
- >talk.politics.[lots.of.groups] and news.admin.policy (the latter may
- >be a bug in the posting algorithm). Serdan is said to be a program
- >named argic/mutlu (these are acronyms whose meaning I forget) and
- >supposedly posts from a public-access unix site.
- > I would invite the reader to hop on over to the besieged
- >newsgroups and check argic out for itself. However, this effort will
- >probably be unnecessary, because it been suggested that argic uses the
- >same strategy as Kibo (another fine AI poster) does, namely, grep
- >/usr/spool/news for articles containing certain keywords. One of
- >these keywords is certainly included in the following list: Turkey
- >armenia nazi russia soviet fascist.
-
- To tell the truth, IMHO Argic should not be encouraged. Not unless you
- really want your group infected by millions of posts that have nothing to
- do with anything.
-