Bot or pseudonym?

Posted on July 1, 2004 by Charles Kuffner

I can’t tell if the person who just now left the second comment on this post is a joker with a good working knowledge of Internet trivia, or someone testing out a new comment-bot. Anyone wanna take a guess?

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4 Responses to Bot or pseudonym?

  1. sarah says:
    July 1, 2004 at 10:09 pm

    Hmm…could this be another round of propaganda a la the letters to the editor scheme earlier this year? Some of the language and stories in that post is remarkably similar to this one:

    http://braden.buzzword.com/discuss/msgReader$361?mode=day

    and this one:

    http://www.liddyletter.com/marineInIraq.htm

    (Note that the latter is on a G. Gordon Liddy site and reportedly “passed through the military grapevine”)

    The comment you received is so fragmented and awkward that it almost seems like it must be some sort of bot. Very odd indeed.

  2. sarah says:
    July 1, 2004 at 10:17 pm

    PS – Since you’re running MT, maybe you should run a WHOIS on the IP address of the poster? Might be interesting…

  3. Steve says:
    July 1, 2004 at 10:28 pm

    I’d guess “joke”, Charles. A while ago someone was running a Markov chain-generated warblog whose supposed author had a very similar name.

    Which is not to say that it’s not a joke using a comment spam delivery method.

  4. Charles E says:
    July 2, 2004 at 5:03 am

    It’s definitely some sort of bot. I just saw it on Warblogging.com.

    http://www.warblogging.com/cgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=599

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