Re: Please tell me this is an April Fool's gag

Subject: Re: Please tell me this is an April Fool's gag
From: Andreas Ramos <andreas -at- NETCOM -dot- COM>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 12:06:07 -0800

It's not an april fool's story. I heard about this some time ago.

I guess you haven't seen GIRLFRIEND. It's a program that creates dialog.
Of course, you know what kind of dialog. Rather inane, but it sells very
well.

yrs,
andreas
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Andreas Ramos, M.A. Heidelberg Sacramento, California


On Thu, 31 Mar 1994 ejray -at- OKWAY -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU wrote:

> Hi!
> I just saw this in EDUPAGE, a general news list I get,
> and I am surprised, to put it mildly. The copy reads:

> SOFTWARE REPLACES SPORTSWRITERS
> A $100 software program called Sportswriter is capable
> of churning out reasonably good sports copy by
> intelligently stringing together words between facts.
> Some 80 small newspapers in the Midwest have purchased
> the program and are using it to cover high school
> sports events. (Wall Street Journal 3/29/94 A1)

> Snide comments about sports writing aside, this seems
> to push the bounds of automation tools. Have any of you
> seen such a thing?

> We all know that we couldn't be replaced with a $100
> program called TECHWRITER, but I could see some
> companies looking into this type of thing.

> Comments?
> Eric
> ejray -at- okway -dot- okstate -dot- edu


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