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- From: visser@convex.com (Lance Visser)
- Subject: Re: Have you ever noticed that Mutlu and Argic.....
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:29:47 GMT
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- In <93020.183938U53644@uicvm.uic.edu> <U53644@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
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- +>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.
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- There is no Coincidence because they are the same person or
- group of people. The change to "Argic" was done at the same time
- that the articles started arriveing on the net via a "double blind"
- system. The articles are produced at a site sera.uucp which may
- or may not really exist (no way to prove either way). sera.uucp
- has a news-only connection to anatolia.uucp, a real site run by
- an identifiable person. anatolia posts the argic material to the
- net via a paid link to uunet.
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-
- +>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 ?
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- If you have the stamina to read his posts, you will find out that
- he does run out of material and reposts the same material over and over.
- He just mixes it up and retitles it.
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- +>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).
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- It also searches out mentions of his name in any newsgroup and
- immediatly adds that group to the distribution list for his articles.
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