[117160] in Cypherpunks
anon++
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Fri Aug 27 12:50:48 1999
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 17:21:33 +0200 (CEST)
Message-Id: <199908271521.RAA09179@mail.replay.com>
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
At 12:00 AM 8/27/99 +0200, Anonymous wrote:
>I just figured it out.
>
>There are 9 distinct posters on cpunks. Most discussions take
>place between pseudonyms of the same meatperson.
>
>The last time real interaction happened was Feb 12, 1997.
This is an automatically generated response from cpstegbot1.7b.
You will not be reminded again.
For some time now, all dialog on cp has been machine generated
as stego covertext. We use markovian-topic-meandering techniques
and cull topics from newswires using simple keyword matches.
The rest of it is recycled text. We use both synthetic and previously
collected lexical structures ("personalities") as the claimed-actors.
The actual number may vary.
Mostly the stego messages are pointers to dead drops containing the real
discussions.
Well, ok, sometimes someone gets drunk and adds some new raw
entropy, or forgets and leaves a bot running, and it runs out of entropy after
a while; but for the most part, even Rhizome crosspostings are
automatically dealt with now.
Please feel free to contribute; new content is automatically
accumulated in the system and help it avoid falling back to "Anon" as
covertext author.
