This is a good one, and so apropos of Super Bowl season, it is a new expression "ASTROTURFING" New York Times article (registration required) which has come to designate the kind of e-mail avalanche that robots and daemons can originate on the Internet that looks at first glance like some kind of authentic grass-roots writing campaign. I have heard this now in reference to e-mails that politicians get from lobbyist and special interests, and now it is being used by newspaper editors to generate letters to the editor. Its getting hard to tell the people from the avatars...