On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Jon Corelis wrote...
>Is the Internet a poet?
A poet is a person who writes poetry. The Internet isn't a person and it
doesn't write poetry. Therefore it's not a poet.
There are some pieces of software available on the Internet that
generate sequences of words that you might or might not call poetry. But
such a piece of software isn't called a poet, though it might be called
a poetry generator. And these programs, although perhaps part of the
Internet, are not the Internet.
Cheers,
--
Peter
http://www.hphoward.demon.co.uk/poetry/
http://peterhoward.org
http://subatomicpoetry.blogspot.com/
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