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Over a week ago, I posted a feeler in net.sources.d to find out if
folks would be interested in this.  Since I've received more than
20 "aye's" and not a single "nay", I've decided to post it.

This program prints news stories by combining peoples' names, actions,
times, and places.  The results are often funny, somewhat off-the-wall,
and occasionally downright scandalous.

WARNING: SOME PERSONS MIGHT FIND SOME OF THE STORIES PRINTED BY THE
NEWSPAPER GENERATOR OFFENSIVE.  FEEL FREE TO MODIFY THE PHRASES CONTAINED
WITHIN TO SUIT YOUR PARTICULAR SENSITIVITIES.

I am grateful to the unknown hacker who created the original version of this
program.  His version printed out random "soft-porn" paragraphs.  Some
jokers had a great time with it--they aliased it to the 'more' command
in the secretaries' accounts.

Other notes:
1. Use "cc -O -s newsgen.c -o newsgen" to compile it.
2. Invoke it as 'newsgen' for a single story; 'newsgen lp' prints
   multiple stories.
3. For a real scandal sheet, substitute your local phone list for
   the list of names in the first array.
4. It should be fairly portable code.  Please post any portability problems.
5. A number of extra arrays are included as stubs.  If someone feels
   especially creative, they could expand the printouts considerably.
   Please mail or post any such enhancements.

Finally, neither I nor my employer assume any responsibility for the
suitability of this software for anything.  It is distributed without
malicious intent, and no harm is intended or should be inferred by the
program's output.

Have fun!

Mike Gancarz
DEC Ultrix Engineering Group
decvax!gancarz