Selective import from huge amount of pictures

Hi,
I'm just working with a trial version of Lightroom 3 and want to ask for some functions, which I may have not figured out, how they work.
I need a software or function to import tons of pictures. About 5-15% of the pictures are rubbish. So LR can skip the developing process and don't export them.
It would be also nice to make the process of importing, developing and exporting full automatic. So I only give the path to the source pictures and get somewhere else the good pictures as a result, without much more work with the lightroom.
In general 5-15% of my pictures could be deleted, because they are much too dark or over-lightened. Some pictures are just right, and many pictures need a some automatic or predefined correction. The final result doesn't have to be absolutely brilliant, it must be just OK.
I hope you can help me or you have a suggestion which software could do this, if the Lightroom isn't the best suited tool for this duty.
Best Wisches
Torsten

Torten wrote:
So lightroom should automatically consider the histogramm and the avarage grey value and maybe other parameters to roughly judge on its own, if a single picture is good enoug or not.
with all respect but had to giggle when i read this - how should that work? How should a software know what is a good picture for YOU?
If you take a photo of a candle in front of a black curtain, the histogram is almost full to the left with just some veeery small peaks in the right area. Is this a bad picture or not?
If another picture on a cloudy day only has a histogram in the middle-section with no blacks and now whites - good or bad?
Only darks and lights with almost no mids - good or bad?
You CANNOT judge a picture by it's histogram. You always need a context/content and even then a computer cannot tell if this picture of a person is good or bad only because it was a very rainy day or not…
Sorry - But i think you have to be picky when you take the picture if you are not willing to review them later.

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