Here's a brief mention of the automatic complaint-letter generator
appearing in the 12 February 2002 Chicago Tribune, in an article by
David Turim entitled, Plug in your numbers for help with
practically any problem
:
http://www-csag.cs.uiuc.edu/individual/pakin/complaint is another long-time personal favorite of mine. Scott Pakin's automatic complaint-letter generator has to be seen and deployed to be fully-appreciated. Enter some noisome and deserving person's name and let 'er rip. You'll be amazed at the incendiary, yet nonsensical, screed that emerges. When you lay such a note on said individual's desk, sit back and observe the ensuing hilarity/paranoia. Most impressive of all is that there seems to be an endless supply of scathing variations.