Dear Colleagues:

A great many of you recently received email with the subject heading
"A Universal Artifical Intelligence".  If you'll recall, the email
claimed to be from a construction worker named Wilson Holland who had
discovered the secret to AI.

I must apologize to all of you for the spam.  There is, of course, no
construction worker named Wilson Holland.  There is only a shell
script I wrote on a lark.  You see, on a dare I attempted to port an
AI system from Lisp to csh.  Unfortunately, when I fired "Wilson" up,
it was just smart enough to sign up for an AOL account and start
spamming out Markov-chain-generated AI-babble.

Although I thought I had killed "Wilson" after his first round of
spam-email, it turned out I had only suspended him, and when I
accidentally foregrounded him you got the more recent spamming.  This
time I used kill -HUP; however, I am a little worried that "Wilson"
may have uploaded himself to an AOL mainframe in the form of a
VBscript virus, so if you get additional email from "him", please just
delete it as soon as possible.

Please join me for a discussion of the merits of different shells and
scripting languages as a foundation for AI at tonight's...

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