ZDNet: RIP: Government claims no mass surveillance (fwd)

[Adam Atkinson (ETL)]

> > Perhaps the thing to do would be to put occasional rogue 
> sentences in
> > the middle of messages, rather than isolated words.
> 
> No, I can't do it, it is so boring making this stuff up...

You could use something like the JRP1 "groan" program, which 
generated random supervision reports, love letters, complaints, etc.
It joined together randomly chosen sentence fragments and words
to create a plausible-looking piece of text of the kind it was
asked to generate. There was a companion program, much
more sophisticated, which composed sonnets.

All you need is a data file like this:

*
Tony Blair
Peter Mandelson
Charles Clarke
*
said
wrote
*
that
*
computers
cars
knitting needles
*
would be made
*
illegal
compulsory
*
after the next election
*

The program then chooses a random item from each section between "*"
symbols. It also allowed nested stuff with "[" and "]" but that's
a detail.

My current email program at home adds random signatures to mail. I
could cobble together a groan-clone and add a paragraph of random
conspiracy theory to messages automatically if I wanted to.