NewsForge: Our New OpenOffice.org Article Automated Response System

“After writing articles about OpenOffice.org over the last few
years, I’ve noticed that, no matter what the exact subject is, I
get the same comments from readers. This situation strikes me as
deeply unfortunate. NewsForge readers, I know, are busy people.
They don’t have time to write long comments, or engage in endless
email discussions. To spare them, I have devised a series of
generic comments for articles about OpenOffice.org– ot just mine,
but anybody’s.

“To respond to an article with a generic comment, all readers
need to do is post the number of the comment they wish to make.
Eventually, we hope to automate the process using NewsForge’s
polling software…”

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