Anthony in KILL FILE was: Re: [Leica] Who is Anthony Atkielski?

["Ken Iisaka" <kiisaka@ibm.net>]

From: Martin Howard <mvh@media.mit.edu>
> OK, I've figured it out.  Anthony Atkielski isn't a person: it's a
computer
> program. ;)
>
> Anyone remember Eliza?  I think Anthony is an elaborate joke!  Pick a
> relatively limited domain (such as Nikons, or Leicas), build a piece of
> sophisticated software around connectionist technology, slap an natural
> language parser and generator onto the front end it, slip it into a
mailing
> list.
> The reponse to Paul C's question was the clincher.  Nice one.  Had me
going
> there for quite a while.

Well, seeing that Anthony posted the highest number of posts in the past few
days than anyone else, at least doubling the traffic on LUG, with
irrelevent, argumentative, offensive posts, he earned his privileged
position in my kill file.

As the matter of fact, he is the only one there.