DOS era chatterbot nonsense-generator

I'm not sure about the one you're referring to specifically but there was one called jabberwock. Chatterbotcollection.com has a large list of historical bots but I've rarely found the links to be current or alive unfortunately. It does have a listing called jabber btw. Anything else you recall about it? Any graphics at all? Did it like to gossip and spread rumors (Racter). My personal favorite from the dos days was the first Alice (dos). I'm fairly sure it was also Richard Wallace who wrote it but am having a predictably hard time finding that right now. -----Original Message----- From: David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> Sender: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.orgDate: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 16:34:58 To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Reply-To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: DOS era chatterbot nonsense-generator I'm trying to remember and locate a chatterbot program from the heyday of DOS. I think it was called "jabber". What made it particularly interesting is that you could feed three text files of stuff (like novels, scientific papers, etc) and then control the proportions of how much of each input file made it to the output. When all were set to zero, it would just emit "jabber" over and over. Google isn't particularly helpful in finding this. I'm getting false hits on the Jabber IM protocol and denial of service attacks. -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?