Polite Responder

Polite-Responder 1.0

Is your email getting out of hand? Do your friends and colleagues complain that you never respond to their messages? If the answer to either or both of these questions is "yes," then you need Polite-Responder.

Polite-Responder is a utility that can immediately generate and send polite responses to a wide range of the most frequently received types of messages. Using techniques developed by Artificial Intelligence researchers, Polite-Responder analyzes and interprets the incoming message, then produces a polite and cogent response. You'll probably be surpised by just how human its responses sound. Why, some programmers have even found it to be good company on a late night at the office!

Here's a sample message and response. We think you'll be impressed.

The Message

Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 17:38:43 -0800
To: xian@netcom.com (Lord Funbottom)
From: bsherin@garnet.berkeley.edu (Bruce Sherin)
Subject: new WWW page
Status: RO

Dear Xian,
I just discovered this great new Web page!  It's called Dr. Kovak's MicroWeb
and it's pretty great.  Have you heard about it already?  It's got only the 
best stuff out there on the web.  Really.  So, take a look.  It's URL is:

      http://enterzone.berkeley.edu/microwebstart.html.

Let me know what you think.

         - Bruce

The Response from Polite-Responder
Date:Tue, 19 Jan 1995 18:20:51 -0800
From: xian@netcom.com (Malomar Beebles)
Subject: Re: new WWW Page
To: bsherin@garnet.berkeley.edu (Bruce Sherin) 
MIME-version: 1.0

Dear Bruce,

I read with great interest your message regarding new WWW page.  I plan 
to look into it as soon as I have a chance.  

>>  Have you heard about it already?

Yes, I agree!

Thanks again.  I hope to hear from you soon.

     --xian 

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