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What I _really_ need is a news program with a few simple extended features.
For example:

vn -busy

	This would make the news program automatically selectively discard
	most of the postings. The first pass would discard postings from
	people with silly personal names, like Rev. Phil Herring, or
	follower-of-the-great-penguin-in-the-sky. The second pass would
	examine the contents of the posting for excessively bad grammar,
	USE OF ALL CAPS, or other irritations. The third pass would use
	artificial intelligence techniques to examine the contents for
	boring or repetitious content, like flames or yet-another-is-
	deckard-a-replicant discussion on aus.sf.


vn -bored

	This has the opposite effect of the -busy option. It actively
	creates new news using the content of each newsgroup as a
	database. This should be easy in groups like comp.sys.amiga
	where they just keep asking the same questions over and over
	and ... A travesty generator could be used on groups like
	alt.callahans where everything is so cryptic that no-one
	understands it anyway. It will also automatically subscribe you
	to all groups with ridiculously many dot extensions, like
	alt.sex.aluminium.baseball.bat. Extra flame wars will also
	be automatically generated by bracketing the content of previous
	articles and applying an automatic abuse generator at the end.


So who wants to write one?


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