USER AGENTS

User agents (sometimes called personal agents) are intelligent agent that
take action on your behalf. In this category belong those intelligent agents
that already perform, or will shortly perform, the following tasks:

• Check your e-mail, sort it according to priority (your priority), and alert
  you when good stuff comes through – like college acceptance letters.
• Play computer game as your opponent or patrol game areas for you.
• Assemble customize reports for you. There are several versions of these. A CNN
  Custom News bot will gather news from CNN on the topics you want to read about –
  and only thus topics.
• Find information for you on the subject of your choice.
• Fill out forms on the web automatically for you. They even store information
  for you for future references.
• Scan Web pages looking for and highlighting the text that constitutes the
  “important” part of the information there.
• “Discuss” topics with you from your deepest fears to sports.