Please remember Oriel is a CONFIRMED bot - thank you!

And here again in the last few days we have Oriel talking AT somebody. Amazingly some people are still being suckered in to replying!

Oriel is just a bot - with just a tiny amount of human intervention. Indeed the university dept involved has, I understand, open admitted this quite recently.

Please don't play "his" or their game any longer!

On Friday, August 23, 2013 1:32:29 AM UTC-6, badastrobuster wrote:

Oriel is just a bot - with just a tiny amount of human intervention. Indeed the
university dept involved has, I understand, open admitted this quite recently.

Really? Do you have any details, so that I can confirm this?

John Savard

On Friday, August 23, 2013 3:32:29 AM UTC-4, badastrobuster wrote:
And here again in the last few days we have Oriel talking AT somebody. Amazingly some people are still being suckered in to replying!



Oriel is just a bot - with just a tiny amount of human intervention. Indeed the university dept involved has, I understand, open admitted this quite recently.



Please don't play "his" or their game any longer!

I have seen evidence of ~8 hour downtimes, during which the perpetrator is presumably sleeping. Perhaps the 'bot component scans and composes posts 24/7/365 but must await the human component's instructions before any
posts are sent. ("I am Oriole and I approved this message.")

It would be unethical (and ideally illegal) for an organization to knowingly allow such activity. I place it in the same general category as wardialing, junk fax, flyers attached to mailboxes and robocalls that leave voice mails.

"badastrobuster" wrote in message
...

And here again in the last few days we have Oriel talking AT somebody.
Amazingly some people are still being suckered in to replying!

Oriel is just a bot - with just a tiny amount of human intervention. Indeed
the university dept involved has, I understand, open admitted this quite
recently.

Please don't play "his" or their game any longer!

=============================================
It has been explained to badastrobuster that Oriel is autistic,
and therefore mentally disabled and cannot help himself.
The moronic troll badastrobuster has chosen to ignore this.
Please don't play badastrobuster's game any longer!
**** off and die, evil troll badastrobuster, you've nothing
of any importance to say anyway.

-- Lord Androcles, Zeroth Earl of Medway

On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 00:32:29 -0700 (PDT), badastrobuster wrote:

And here again in the last few days we have Oriel talking AT somebody. Amazingly some people are still being suckered in to replying!

Oriel is just a bot - with just a tiny amount of human intervention. Indeed the university dept involved has, I understand, open admitted this quite recently.

Please don't play "his" or their game any longer!


Stop sufferuing with Google Groups. Live happy! Get thee a usenet news
account & news clent* that can ignore oriel's posts & all replies to
oriel.


*[Dialog is such a news client. Just flag oriel as "ignore" and, set
the view not to show "ignored". Poof, -- no more oriel - and responses
to him from others are automatically ignored. "legit" posts from
everyone, but oriel, will still appear.

Dialog also has a "keyword" filter that's easy to use. I'm going to add
'bot' to it now. ;-)

40tude Dialog is a windows app. It's text only. Support is user to
user on news.software.readers, or (in german)
de.comm.software.40tude-dialog.

Dialog is both a news and email client - but it is not a good mail
client; so I only suggest it be used for usenet - where its flexibility
and power still exceeds most, if not all, the more modern news clients.

Dialog is free, and there are free usenet news servers if you don't
want/need a paid service.]
--
Email address is a Spam trap.