[SOC] It's true!

[Kevin Rock]

This guy did not pass the Turing test :)
   Kevin.  KD5ONS


-----Original Message-----
>From: Walter - K5EST <walter.k5est at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jan 28, 2010 10:10 AM
>To: Second Class Operators' Club <soc at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: Re: [SOC] It's true!
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>Great story..................keyboarding with a robot........how
>future'istic!!!!!!
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>73....Walter - K5EST
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>On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Michael Coslo <mjc5 at psu.edu> wrote:
>> For those who don't know me, I'm the Chairman of the Pennsylvania QSO
>> Party.
>>
>> We have an electronic log submission process that whenever a person
>> sends in a log via email, it automatically sends a copy of the log to
>> me, the Vice chairman, and keeps a copy on the server. The Operator
>> gets a email reply that says we got the log, and thanks him for
>> operation in the party, yada, yada. If it's not a log, I don't see it.
>> But it isn't a terribly complicated system. The email reply is
>> triggered on the email, not the log.
>>
>> A couple years ago, an Op had sent his log to our email address just
>> like he was supposed to.
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>> Right before declaring all logs received, I check the server just to
>> make sure I have everything.
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>> I see several emails from this guy. Now that's odd.....
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>> I open the first - it's his submission. Standard autoreply.
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>> I open the second - he asked a question. Standard autoreply again.
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>> Third - he writes that we didn't answer his question. Yup, same
>> autoreply.
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>> Now he's mad.
>>
>> Fourth through eighth, was an increasingly irritated batch of posts,
>> ending up with lots of swearing, disparaging remarks about the QSO
>> Party, and my intelligence, lineage and ancestors. All the time, the
>> robot is thanking him kindly in reply.
>>
>> I quickly got hold of the fellow and explained what happened. After
>> his embarrassment about getting into a fight with an email robot, we
>> both had to agree that it was awfully funny.
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>> I modified the autoreply message to include that people should not do
>> correspondence at that address.
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>> But this might be the most SOC thing I'd ever seen.
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>> -73 de Mike N3LI -
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