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