From: iw@all.net
Subject: IW Mailing List iw/960205
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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Probes?
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 10:35:39 -0600 (CST)

> My definition of probe is an artificial life form that exists only
> electronically and on storage media and uses artificial intelligence to
> accomplish its mission.

I'd call that a "spider" or an "agent", since those are the terms
commonly used for the more-or-less benign versions of these. 
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