"Ivan Brugiolo [MSFT]" wrote:
Per the investigation performed and documented in this thread from
microsoft.public.win32.programmer [...] there is reasonable evidence
that the postings from
George@discussions.microsoft.com are from some sort of BOT
or automated agent, [...]
Considering George's habit to [almost automatically] reiterate over
discussion topics, I won't be surprised if he's indeed some kind of bot.
Most likely not fully automatic, but manually corrected from time to
time.
I noticed that George's posts are quite uneven: from blind restating
(often verbatim) a previous post with request to "confirm" to fairly
intelligent answers (probably when the creator of the bot intervenes and
puts it back on the right track).
BTW, "X-Newsreader: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000" header is produced by
MSDN web interface to Usenet: http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/
Alex
P.S. George, if you're indeed real person, then please use a Usenet
reader other than MSDN online newsgroups.