"Agent 003 may soon face an official warning from the Postmaster General though, because he hasn’t delivered a single message yet."

I think you'll find Agent 003 is a girl.

Well done on copying that article from the BBC website. It's only been up there since Monday.

Quality journalism from the reg.

I am disgusted by El Reg and removing you from my bookmarks.

they are all girls, and boys, land snails are hermaphrodites...Paris - because she she would think that's 'hot'

I'm no snail expert, but according to Wikipedia, snails are actually hermaphrodites. So, whilst Agent 003 may have been given a female name, the slithering RFID snail is neither boy nor girl.

"I think you'll find Agent 003 is a girl"

Or a boy ... or both - most snails are hermaphrodite

Haven't AOL been using a similar system for delivering messages from non AOL accounts?

See above.

Schrödinger's snail?

Yes, it is a stretch. My coat is/isn't...

The RFID does not carry a message it is only an ID, the ID triggers server events. ie trigger collect, trigger release, and repeat. the message is located on the server at all times. and is not unfortunatly carried by the snails. Now flash snails is another matter....

Anyway random wandering is stupid, make these snails work... saoemone needs to devise a method to encourage these snails to move back and forth..

heat light food water ?? surely something will do it?

I think you'll find that Agent 003 actually works for the Office of Administration for the Executive Office of the President, as all 003's emails have seem to gone "missing," too.

My coat's made up of the missing back-up tapes from the OA.

"heat light food water ?? surely something will do it?"

Sodium Chloride.

I was wondering where that package ended...

Is going to escar-go if she don't pick up the pace a bit. Maybe some of that hot butter would do the trick.