On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Bovine Remailer wrote:

Foulmouthed <name snipped> rehashes his lies like a rabid parrot choking on a stale mantra stuck in its poisonous beak.

Obviously, we're taking "<user name> sucks" messages to a new level. The author seems to be striving for some display of literary prowess, albeit one that's a tad heavy on similes. So that we can all save some time (why use valuable time to think of "you suck" messages, when you can just have the computer build them for you?), perhaps folks should take a look at the "Chomskybot" that's running at "http://www.ling.lsa.umich.edu/cgi-bin/chomsky.pl". Being familiar with Noam Chomsky helps, but most everyone will see the value of what the site has to offer. By changing the initiating, subject, verbal and terminating phrases, the Chomskybot should be able to provide exactly what's needed when trading insults with other Cypherpunks. We can have contests for "Best of Breed" (hell, we *already* have contests, it's just that nobody ever wins any prizes), and "genre" categories based on upcoming events, holidays, political headlines, etc. Eventually, someone will link the Perl code into procmail or cron, and we can have a new "<user name> sucks" message automatically mailed to the list every few seconds by battling Cypherpunk super-computer-powered "clans". When enough automated insults fill the list, human interaction will simply cease and then we can all enjoy the enormous amounts of free time that we'll have since we won't actually have to read anything any longer. So, we got any Perl programmers out there? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |It's a small world and it smells bad | Mark Aldrich | |I'd buy another if I had | GRCI INFOSEC Engineering | |Back | maldrich@grci.com | |What I paid | MAldrich@dockmaster.ncsc.mil| |For another mother****er in a motorcade |Quote from "Sisters of Mercy"| |_______________________________________________________________________| |The author is PGP Empowered. Public key at: finger maldrich@grci.com | | The opinions expressed herein are strictly those of the author | | and my employer gets no credit for them whatsoever. | -------------------------------------------------------------------------