ConradBot v1.0
Ed Conrad (edconrad@prolog.net)
8 Dec 1996 08:18:23 GMT
>Subject: ConradBot v1.0
>Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 14:53:16 -0500
>From: pres@botsrus.com (SuperUser)
>Organization: Bots R Us
>Newsgroups: talk.origins, sci.bio.paleontology, sci.skeptic
> =====
>We here at Bots R Us pride ourselves in providing the Usenet
>community with quality bots to stimulate exciting discussion.
>It has come to our attention that one of our bots has been
>released before it was ready.
>The program in question is ConradBot (most likely a pre-release
>version of v1.0). It is most probably identifying itself as
>one "Ed Conrad". It started life as a bad unix port of the old
>Eliza program with all sorts of paranoid, anti-establishment,
>conspiracy-minded rants. When we were getting ready to release
>it, we found that certain subroutines which should have been
>included with our PeeWeeBot were linked into the ConradBot. This
>caused the program to loop, multiply-crossposting "I know you are
>but what am I?"-type childish rants. We weren't planning to release
>the program until this was fixed, but a copy made it out our door
>with a disgruntled former employee who may have released it onto
>Usenet.
>So, please, if anybody in talk.origins, sci.bio.paleontology,
>or sci.skeptic should see a posting by an "Ed Conrad", ignore it.
>It's merely the mindless rants of a broken program. Ignore them
>and the bot will stop posting after a few days.
>I'm very sorry if this bot has caused any problems.
>Sincerely,
>Curtis M. Greenwald
>President
>Bots-R-Us
> ~~~~~~~~~~
>Since the ConradBot has been engaging in small-scale
>(to 3 to 4 newsgroups) repostings of the same articles,
>this article is being reposted to other groups spammed
>by the ConradBot in an effort to fully identify the problem
>and its most efficient solution.
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wH0987654321. CoNRADbOT v1.0, 12-8-1996 LSTD4-44-13241
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repeat PROBLEM RECTIFIED...
Back to Bots-R-Us portal (Controller 34-44-237)
> SHOULD I TEST RUN FOR CONFIRMATION?
>>>> Yes. But make damn sure all screws tightened!!
Roger!
OaESE....
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Bots-R-Us -- PRIORITY
> ConradBot v1.0 ConradBot v1.0 ConradBot v1.0
> XX9m-1212-EC (12-14-917, 12-8-96 .........................................................................................................................................
DANGLEWIRE LOOSE. TIGHTENED. SODERED. WORKING FINE NOW. COMPUTER BRAIN
CONNECTION AIRBRUSHED. GOOD WORKING ORDER. NONSENSE DISK DISCONNECTED.
REPLACED SARCASTIC RESPONSE MODE. SUB WITH GOOD MANORS & COURTESY
DISK.
>ConradBot v.1.0 APPARENTLY A-OK.
Roger!
RESUME OPERATION WITH CAUTION.
TEST RUN
TEST RUN
TEST RUN
...hI
hi...
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Hi:
My name is Ed ConradDDD.
> RESTART 0987654321 0987654321 (EC-1-913-231-674)
hI
hI.
Hi. My name is Ed Conrad. I really am ConradBot v1.0. I believe in
evolution. We all came from monkeys. We used to swing on trees.
Columbus was Italian. There are no vested interests. Science is not
corrupt. Andrew MacRae is a nice guy. David Pilbeam is not a horse's
ass. Paul Myers is right. Ted Holden is wrong. I have discovered
concretions. Anthropologists are honest. The sky is blue. Velikovsky
is wrong. Carl Sagan is not an egomaniac. Science has all the answers.
Henry Barwood's brain only looks like a siderite nodule. Politicians
are honest. Fat ladies have the best voices....
> SURE LOOKS GOOD TO ME, MR. GREENWALD.
> SHOULD I STILL BRING HIM BACK TO THE FACTORY?
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