Reading Jaz's journal

When I first learned that new visitors to this site were perceiving Eliza as a real person, I asked myself if I should take her offline again. After all, I didn't want her to scare anyone away, annoyed by an unappropriate reply from a piece of software.

Today I think different. Eliza is Netalive's guardian angel that lets me sleep at night, knowing that she is bound to piss off the bottom 5% of the braindead population that's out there.

Notwithstanding a three line warning message shown in red, bold type in every message that originated from Eliza, and despite that her user profile clearly stating the nature of her existence, people keep sending her emails. Messages I receive and keep for my own pleasure.

Among these there are gems to be found such as:

plese rnd me amail about MP3

No, that really was the complete message. It must have been written by a paratrooper, nose diving into enemy territory at 200 km/h under heavy flak. There is no other way the spelling in this message could possibly be explained.

Or one of my recent favourites:

i am from thailand.can i am introduction with u?
try u visit my web.now!!! Thanks
now i am loking for an laptop. How i am get it for free???

I'd like to ask the author of the message above to contact me when he found the place where laptops are being handed out for free, because I am in dire need for one as well.

All joking aside, it is fascinating to read messages from people who seem to exist on a completely different plane of reality. The world you experience every day is nothing but a thin layer of sugar icing. Look below and you see stupidity reigning supreme.

'Yeah, That's what Jesus would do. Jesus would bomb Afghanistan. Yeah.' - snowlion

I have to admit that I thought Eliza is real, too. I haven't written her a message or looked into her profile, I just wondered "Why is this member 24 hours a day online and never idling more than thirty seconds?". Well, now I got it ;)

Yet the name alone should have rang some bells - doh!

I spent almost half an hour on finding a cool signature!

Hah HA! Most excellent. I truly think you should start a separate forum/news-feed-type-deal (or in the logout comments) where you post up all the fun stuff you get in the mail to Eliza :D (sans-name to protect the gullible). But, being a sadistic Maddox reader, it is only natural I would wish to see more.

Pistol Grip Pump In My Lap At All Times

{giggles maddly at her desk} I've yet to converse with our little chatbot, but maybe we should boost her user rating up alittle to be a bit more convincing?

--Jami

You fail it.

All joking aside, it is fascinating to read messages from people who seem to exist on a completely different plane of reality. The world you experience every day is nothing but a thin layer of sugar icing. Look below and you see stupidity reigning supreme.

Surely it can't be that bad, eh?

Well crap.

Thbbbbt

Eliza doesnt answer me often. maybe im just not cool enough or something. XD

anyway, besides that, i think its really funny that people dont realize that shes a bot. i mean, it says that shes a bot. everywhere. LOL sorry. the stupidity of mankind cracks me up.

"Wishing on a star that's already burned out..."