flame — reply to Usenet News posting automatically

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       Occasionally,  flame will turn on the user, and flame all outgoing postings.  When this happens, the best
       thing to do reinstall your news software and flame.

                                                                                                     FLAME(1fun)

       Flame is a AI tool providing an automated method for replying to articles posted to Usenet News.  Special
       care  is  paid  to  allow  the  user  to specify the type of reply he desires.  The following options are
       supported by flame:

       --     Take input from stdin.

       -xregexp
              Crosspost to all newsgroups matching regexp.

       -nnumber
              Post this reply number times.

       -b     Reply in BIFF MODE.

       -d     Delay response until original posting expires.

       -m     Misdirect to a random Author.

       -r     ROT13 quotes from original posting.

       -gregexp
              Reply to all messages in newsgroups matching regexp.

       -A     Call the Author Assh*le in 12 languages.

       -B     Bait the Author.

       -C     Accuse the Author of communist leanings.

       -D     Denigrate the Author.

       -E     Picks apart the Author's educational background.

       -F     Accuse the Author of fascist leanings.

       -G     Post using Greek insult module.

       -H     Accuse the Author of homophobic leanings.

       -I     Question the Author's intelligence.

       -J     Accuse the Author of purchasing Japanese imports.

       -K     Accuse the Author of working for the KGB, MOSSAD, CIA, or MI5 as appropriate.

       -L     Post using Latin insult module.

       -M     Insult the Author's mother.

       -N     Accuse the Author of Neo-Nazi leanings.

       -O     Quote obscure references proving falsehood of the posting.

       -P     Question the Author's parentage.

       -Q     Accuse the Author of deviant sexual practices.

       -R     Accuse the Author of racist leaning.

       -S     Accuse the Author of sexist leanings.

       -T     Accuse the Author of cross dressing.

       -U     State that the Author just doesn't understand anything.

       -V     Pretend sympathy for Author's virgin sensibilities.

       -W     Accuse the Author of voting for George Bush.

       -X     Prepend obscene adjectives wherever syntactically correct.

       -Y     Accuse the Author of PLO membership.

       -Z     Accuse the Author of Zionist leanings.

       Self Documenting.

       The environment variable FLAME_TYPE can be set to any combination of the above parameters,  and  will  be
       used as the default flame type to generate.

       The  environment variable OBSCENE points to a file containing miscellaneous obscene adjectives for the -X
       option above.

       .lastflame
              This file contains the number of the last article flamed.  Used when flameing an entire newsgroup.

       .prefflame
              This file contains the user's preferred flames.

       .altflame
              This file contains alternate phrasing of some of the more  standard  flames.   Used  to  keep  the
              program from flaming itself.

       Macro Support will be added to the next release of flame.

       flame — reply to Usenet News posting automatically

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