It took months for Shaney to get accused of being a program. He could of actually spat out someone's complete article (there is no secret about how dumb but effective the program was), but only if god rolled the right dice.
So who is the most gullible audience? net.singles+net.religion or conference shysters? brucee On 4/16/05, Jean Mehat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A Slashdot post mentioned a hand-written fake paper > > titled "Ray Tracing in the Absence of Light". > > As I remember, the authors where referees for a conference, but did not > receive any paper to refer. As an experiment, the next year, they submitted > three papers to this conference (about image synthesis) ; the first one > suggested to add foot mark on the wall, with a correlation between the size > and the height of the mark ; the second one was about ray tracing in the > absence of light; the third one was a copy of the call for paper. The three > papers were accepted.
