From fork-admin@xent.com Fri Oct 4 18:19:18 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.example.com Received: from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1]) by jmason.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DABDF16F17 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 18:19:14 +0100 (IST) Received: from jalapeno [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Fri, 04 Oct 2002 18:19:14 +0100 (IST) Received: from xent.com ([64.161.22.236]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g94G6JK31288 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 17:06:20 +0100 Received: from lair.xent.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70C6C2940A9; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 09:06:02 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: fork@example.com Received: from mail.lig.net (unknown [204.248.145.126]) by xent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B5A629409A for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 09:05:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lig.net (unknown [204.248.145.125]) by mail.lig.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2D816A5B1; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 12:06:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <6E8631AD.30501@lig.net> From: "Stephen D. Williams" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lorin Rivers Cc: "Mr. FoRK" , FoRK List Subject: Re: ActiveBuddy References: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------080209060700030309080805" Sender: fork-admin@xent.com Errors-To: fork-admin@xent.com X-Beenthere: fork@example.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Friends of Rohit Khare List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2028 12:05:01 -0400 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_FUTURE_96_XX,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,HTML_TITLE_EMPTY, KNOWN_MAILING_LIST,MAILTO_LINK,REFERENCES, T_NONSENSE_FROM_99_100,USER_AGENT,X_ACCEPT_LANG version=2.50-cvs X-Spam-Level: --------------080209060700030309080805 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I actually thought of this kind of active chat at AOL (in 1996 I think), bringing up ads based on what was being discussed and other features. For a while, the VP of dev. (now still CTO I think) was really hot on the idea and they discussed patenting it. Then they lost interest. Probably a good thing. sdw Lorin Rivers wrote: >On 10/2/02 12:00 PM, "Mr. FoRK" wrote: > > >>What about a situation where you don't directly ask/talk to the bot, but >>they listen in and advise/correct/interject/etc? >>example: two people discussing trips, etc. may trigger a weather bot to >>mention what the forecast says - without directly being asked. >> >> > >My guess is it's more insidious than that, it's going to be ActiveSpam. > >"Oh, you're going to Seattle? I can get you airline tickets for less" > >Yuck > > --------------080209060700030309080805 Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I actually thought of this kind of active chat at AOL (in 1996 I think), bringing up ads based on what was being discussed and other features. For a while, the VP of dev. (now still CTO I think) was really hot on the idea and they discussed patenting it. Then they lost interest. Probably a good thing.

sdw

Lorin Rivers wrote:

On 10/2/02 12:00 PM, "Mr. FoRK" <fork_list@hotmail.com> wrote:

What about a situation where you don't directly ask/talk to the bot, but
they listen in and advise/correct/interject/etc?
example: two people discussing trips, etc. may trigger a weather bot to
mention what the forecast says - without directly being asked.


My guess is it's more insidious than that, it's going to be ActiveSpam.

"Oh, you're going to Seattle? I can get you airline tickets for less"

Yuck

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