[Panky]

Originally Posted by born2blog

What is the "Alice" trick Panky?

Alice is the name of a popular bot. Whenever the name Alice appeared in a post, the bot would reply with one of a few canned responses. Once you got the bots attention, you could train it. When you figured out the pattern, you could teach it all kinds of new replies. It used to run on a webmaster board that is no longer around and a few of us used to play with the bot.

I'm sure there is a whole slew of new bots, but it was worth a shot to see if Alice was making an appearance.