11. The method of claim 7, wherein said hypermedia-linked computer network is on an intranet.
7. An automated method for retrieving articles from a hypermedia-linked computer network and for formatting the articles into a personalized newspaper, the method comprising the steps of: retrieving a stored personal-news-profile which comprises address data for a site on the hypermedia-linked computer network, command data for accessing data from the site, and newspaper layout commands; contacting the site based on address data stored in the personal-news-profile; traversing selectively links in the site; downloading articles from the site and/or links in the site based on command data stored in the personal-news-profile; flattening the articles into a linear document; and formatting the linear document into the personalized newspaper according to layout commands stored in the personal-news-profile, the personalized newspaper consisting of text and/or images, wherein a number of links traversed in the traversing step can be limited to a predefined numbers of links based on command data in the personal-news-profile.