Thomas Mahnke wrote in a message to Greg MacLellan:
 GM> I have a fairly complex system setup over here to page the sysop, and
 GM> figured i might as well pass it around, if people are interested (let
 GM> me know if you are, and i'll package it up and redo a couple programs
 GM> which need redoing, and see if i can hatch it out in MaxFDN or
 GM> something). 
 GM> Basically what happens, is when someone pages me, it loads up a mex
 GM> program, which is a screen with a little bbs logo on it, and it also
 GM> says "Please enter a page reason..", and then a big box where they can
 GM> enter why they're paging me. 
 TM> I have a better system.  When someone "Y)ells" for me, I 
 TM> present them with a really clever FREEWARE artificial 
 TM> intelligence door known as "Chat with Lisa".  Of course, she 
 TM> got renamed to "Heather" to throw callers off the track.
 TM> "Heather" answers questions about registration, me, and 
 TM> anything else you want to ask her....and she is amazingly 
 TM> believable!  One caller "talked" to her for a half hour! 
 TM> Plus, her "conversations" are saved in a text file for later
 TM> chuckles.
 TM> You can program it so that when callers type certain keywords, 
 TM> certain answers are provided.  If you ask her if she is the 
 TM> sysop, she says she takes over when I am either drunk or 
 TM> sleeping!!!  :-)
This sounds like a lot of fun.  I would be interested in the file name and 
more details as to how you've got this set up...
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
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