Posted by Peter H on March 21, 2008 at 21:24:13 from 86.130.124.105 user Peter_H.
In Reply to: Re: The TarBoard Reaction facility (was Making tents? ...) posted by Jock on March 21, 2008 at 19:37:23:
I seem to remember from the early days of TarBoard an experimental
automatic post generator.
Yes, IIRC that was "Arthur Random". It had some fixed components, eg the start - "In reply to the [previous/next/November's] message . . . Then a [named Ransome character] would say "No one would have believed . . ." It always ended up by asking Ed to do a search.