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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Free Plan 9 "shell" accounts?
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Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 05:31:14 +0200
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> I know but I was kind of hoping Mark would pop his head in
> on this silly thread. Maybe, if we ask nicely, brucee will
> have a word with him.

for the record, it was my idea.  after reading net.singles and
hearing of this markov chain text generator i said, well let's
snarf up some text, feed it into the markov chain, create
a persona and post it straight back at them.  this small detail
seemed to have been forgotten when it got written up in the
Scientific American.

the implementation (iirc), of said idea, was brucee and rob.