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- From: (relgov)
- Subject: Re: Have you ever noticed that Mutlu and Argic.....
- Organization: Motorola Land Mobile Products Sector
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:16:31 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.071631.25650@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
- Followup-To: soc.history
- References: <93020.183938U53644@uicvm.uic.edu>
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- In article <93020.183938U53644@uicvm.uic.edu>, <U53644@uicvm.uic.edu>
- wrote:
- >
- > never seem to mass-post at the same time. I lurked for a while, and this person
- > Mutlu, the mass-posting scourge of this group, has dissappeared, to be replaced
- > by an almost identical scourge named "Argic". Coincidence ? Perhaps. But you
- > know, one person would have a hard time putting out their combined output,
- > unless he stored some articles on disk for later posting (and that strategy
- > wouldn't work forever - only until he ran out of stored articles). Well, are
- > they the same person ? Or is the person who speculated that Mutlu was just
- > someone's AI program being misused right ? (You know, his response pattern is a
- > lot like the old "Ask Eliza" program - stock responses crafted to fit the
- > structure of the comment entered, breaking down into incoherence and/or
- > irrelevancies if you bring up a subject he/it doesn't generally discuss).
- >
- > Interesting possibility, no ? It would be a pretty good prank, though.
- >
- > u53644-ian
-
- If you actually read his drivel, you'll find that the articles repeat
- themselves. There are a couple of articles that stick in my mind that will
- reappear every few weeks or so. Only the introduction changes.
-