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- From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles,soc.penpals,alt.romance,alt.romance.chat
- Subject: Re: SM ISO MAIL
- Message-ID: <16587@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 23:05:27 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.233505.9824@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <JMD.93Jan21112023@lion.bear.com>
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- In article <JMD.93Jan21112023@lion.bear.com> jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond) writes:
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- |Doesn't anyone actually read this group (soc.singles) before posting here?
-
- No, only a fraction of what appears here is real. Actually an archive is
- taken at regular intervals and is distributed to literally thousands of
- machines around the world. These articles are then reformated, reworded,
- and automatically posted as article from new authors by these machines every
- day. This is primarily the reason that threads like "Why don't women
- date Nice Guys(tm)" and "Send me your best Pickup Lines" reoccur with such
- frequency and fool us into believing there is actually a discussion taking
- place. Tina Martin is a result of this process. Tina Martin is
- actually the combination for previous articles by Nina Smith and Charles
- Martin. That isn't to say that the style would actually resemble the
- original. The words are just taken out and a new author is created.
- The programs have approached the sophistication that it is virtually
- impossible to tell the difference between an original article and ones
- created by these machines. They even simulate spelling and grammatical
- errors. Can you tell the difference between a person writing an article
- with errors in and a computer simulating those errors? Isn't amazing what
- computers can do these days? Do you really believe that someone named
- Desiree Champagne actually exists?
-
- --
- -john
-