The following article appeared in the 29 May 1998 edition of the
Orlando Sentinel in in an article entitled, Weird on the
Web
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Got a gripe about somebody but just don't have the right words to express yourself? Scott Pakin does. His Automatic Complaint-Letter Generator will produce an impressive—and mostly senseless—missive of hilarious ranting and raving. All you do is plug in the target's name and the number of paragraphs desired and the generator fashions a letter by randomly combining thousands of programmed phrases.
An example from a customized letter about our friend Cal: Unless
you share my view that I must protest Cal's use of militant deadheads
to make us dependent on anti-intellectualism-oriented worrywarts for
political representation, economic support, social position and
psychological approval, there's no need for you to hear me
further.
Check it out: The Web site is at http://www-csag.cs.uiuc.edu/individual/pakin/complaint.