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|    Google Thinks I'm a Bot    |
|    04 Jan 10 19:58:30    |
      From: vagans@inanna.eanna.net              02:22:22 PM) Sourcerer: Last night I got kicked off by google for giving       the appearance of being a bot while reading old articles              (02:22:29 PM) Sourcerer: hehe              (02:22:38 PM) nesta1: fucking ridiculous              (02:22:52 PM) nesta1: how did that manigest              (02:22:56 PM) nesta1: manifest              (02:23:04 PM) Sourcerer: I wrote to them Look, you know and I know that       google, the premier search engine and data haven has a fucked interface       and search for usenet              (02:23:49 PM) Sourcerer: After a bit it pops up a google screen, sorry       but we think your a bot              (02:24:15 PM) Sourcerer: and then links to a help page              (02:24:32 PM) Sourcerer: where you can respond              (02:24:36 PM) nesta1: oh fucking hell              (02:24:41 PM) Sourcerer: So I fucking flamed them 8-)              (02:25:20 PM) Sourcerer: This is like 3:30 am                            --        (__) Sourcerer        /(<>)\ O|O|O|O||O||O        \../ |OO|||O|||O|| Mirroring the shadows of futurity        || OO|||OO||O||O since 1993              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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