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 .TH FILTERS 6
 .SH NAME
-aust, b1ff, biffa, buck, censor, chef, cockney, drawl, fin, fudd, jethro jive ken, kraut, ky00te, mb, moo, newspeak, nyc, valspeak \- assorted text filters
+ken, b1ff, censor, chef, cockney, eleet, fudd, jethro, jibberish, jive, kraut, ky00te, newspeak, nyc, rasterman, spammer, studly, uniencode, upside\-down \- assorted text filters
 .SH SYNOPSIS
-All the filters read input from stdin, change it, and write the filtered
-text to stdout.
+ $SHELL | chef
+ 
+ newspeak < thesis.tex > newthesis.tex
+
+ eleet | wall # b1ff works well too
+
+ b1ff | ircII | censor
 .SH "DESCRIPTION"
 All of these programs are filters to do all sorts of strange things to text.
-No racial or societal slurs are intended. For amusement only.
-.IP aust
-Australian
+No personal, racial, societal slurs are intended. For amusement only.
+.P
+All the filters read input from stdin, change it, and write the filtered
+text to stdout.
 .IP b1ff
 The B1FF filter
-.IP biffa
-??
-.IP buck
-The buckwheat filter
-.IP censor
-[CENSORED]
-.IP chef
-convert English on stdin to Mock Swedish on stdout
 .IP cockney
 Cockney English
-.IP drawl
-English to Texan translator
-.IP fin
-??
+.IP chef
+convert English on stdin to Mock Swedish on stdout
+.IP eleet
+K3wl hacker slang
 .IP fudd
 Elmer Fudd
 .IP jethro
 Hillbilly text filter
 .IP jive
 Jive English
+.IP jibberish
+Runs text through a random selection of the rest of the filters, to make really
+weird output.
 .IP ken
 English into Cockney, featuring (dubious) rhyming
 slang for a lot of computer terminology.
 .IP kraut
-German
-.IP mb
-Marc Barrett posting translator
-.IP moo
-The cow filter
+Generates text with a bad German accent.
+.IP ky00te
+This program places a very cute (and familiar to FurryMuck
+fans) accent on any text file.
 .IP newspeak
-As in 1984
+A-la-1984
+.IP censor
+CDA-ize text
 .IP nyc
 Brooklyn English
-.IP valspeak
-??
-.IP ky00te
-This program places a very cute (and familiar to FurryMuck
-fans) accent to any text file.
+.IP rasterman
+Makes text look like it came from the keyboard of Carsten Haitzler.
+.IP spammer
+Turns honest text into something that is liable to be flagged as spam.
+.IP studly
+Studly caps.
+.IP uniencode
+Use glorious unicode to the fullest possibile extent. As seen previously in
+many man pages.
+.IP upside\-down
+Flips text upside down. Stand on your head and squint to read the output.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
-.IP /usr/doc/filters/SAMPLES
+.IP /usr/share/doc/filters/SAMPLES
 Lists samples of the output of all the filters.
-.SH AUTHOR
-The filters were collected from all over, by Joey Hess <joey@kite.ml.org>
+.SH AUTHORS
+The eleet, upside\-down, chef, b1ff, and censor filters were written by
+Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>. Daniel V Klein <dvk@lonewolf.com> wrote the
+cockney, jive, and nyc filters. jibberish is by Raul Miller
+<rdm@test.legislate.com>, jethro is by Duane Paulson
+<ci922@cleveland.freenet.edu>, rasterman is by Zachary Beane, ken is by
+Stephen K Mulrine <skm@eqsn.net>, newspeak is by Jamie Zawinski
+<jwz@jwz.org>, studly is by Nick Phillips <nwp@lemon\-computing.com>, and
+kraut is by John Sparks.