On Thu, 16 Apr 1992 12:43:14 CDT Marty Hoag said:
>   Actually, I've been hoping that Eric got interested in expert systems
>(and would write a robot postmaster helper...  ;-)
>
>   To get the most "benefit" from the bounces makes it a highly skilled
>routine job.  After trying to find workstudy students to help me (they
>screen the messages to eliminate repetitious errors, remove unknown users
>from lists, etc) I've wondered if would be possible to do this with a
>program.  The biggest problem is the wild variety of input formats.
>Or maybe I just need to ask applicants if they like mysteries...   Marty
 
I don't think this should be that big a problem.  The program only needs to
recognize the most common forms of rejection mail.  The rest (perhaps as
little as 5%) could then be forwarded to a human for processing.
 
I'm trying to get one of our AI graduate students interested in it as a
thesis project...
 
Harold