Originally posted by googlefudge
You are verging on spam now.
Say something new or shut up.
Years ago, there was a supposed Usenet bot (or simulated bot) called Riley M. Sinder that RJ's latest series of posts in this thread remind me of.
Perhaps the bot has evolved into RJ?
http://dev.null.org/psychoceramics/archives/1997.03/msg00005.html
Partial quote:
> If the Usenet newsgroup you frequent seems a little more active
> lately, you can thank a team of six UofC psychology graduate students
> researching debating behavior on the Internet.
> The students have created an Internet character, given him an
> unpopular cause, and even created a personality for him as they used him
> to spar with real people all over the world.
> "The results have been fascinating," says team member Ehmed Mudjavi.
> "People have gone to a great deal of trouble to respond to our character,
> and have even gotten really angry at him on occasion."
> The team has dubbed its creation "Riley Sinder," and an account was
> opened up under that name with Netcom, an Internet service provider
> (Riley's e-mail address, r--
@n--.com, is based on the UofC lacrosse
> team's colors).
> Since the start of the term, the students have been regularly posting
> under Riley's name to more than a dozen political, religious and
> philosophical newsgroups.
> All the posts argue a single point: that creationism should be taught
> in public school science classes.