ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home) writes:
Dale Thorn wrote:
Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
Graham-John Bullers wrote:
Vulis time to take your pills.
I am not a native English speaker, and am curious about something. Mr. GB does not put a comma after "Vulis", although I think that a standard English practice is to do so. That makes his messages look kinda cute. I wonder whether there is any hidden meaning in omitting commas in this cas
It was obvious to me (a native speaker) early on that the messages from GB referring to Dr. Vulis were auto-generated. It's fairly easy for a human to type in the exact same response over and over (doing so manually), but to vary the hand-typed messages, while main- taining the complete lack of emotion and sense of robotic blandness, would require a great deal of attention that these messages would not justify.
dale,
i am sure they are not machine generated. the content is different every time, plus it srt of depends on the context to which he is replying. like, if vulis's article is about sexual perversions, GB calls him a pervert.
one still could do that in perl, but it is not likely to be the case
I've been writing a program (in C, actually, although perl might be a good tool for strings and such :-) that would scan Usenet newsgroups for trigger keywords and generate randomized follow-ups depending on what's been said. It's a big project; I hoped to have it done by April 1st, but it'll definitely take longer. I hope that with enough tweaking my spambot will sound less robotic than Graham-John('s?). --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps