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From: garry@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Garry Wiegand)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Keywords
Message-ID: <1994@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Sun, 11-Jan-87 15:22:24 EST
Article-I.D.: batcompu.1994
Posted: Sun Jan 11 15:22:24 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 12-Jan-87 05:36:10 EST
Reply-To: garry%cadif-oak@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu
Followup-To: talk.politics.misc
Organization: Cornell Engineering && Flying Moose Graphics
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(flame warning!)

In a recent article ksbooth@watcgl.UUCP (Kelly Booth) wrote:
>A recent posting contained a list of keywords to trigger some NSA filter.
> 		...  Thus people who reply to such articles may end up
>on a list that could be used against them... 
>[and goes on to object to the practice]

The people who are including that list are trying to make a (small) 
statement of conscience. It's one of the few places that all our jabbering
on the net actually impinges on the real world!

Arguable reasons for them to stop might (conceivably) include:

	1) It costs some money to transport those extra few bytes,
	2) It's unpatriotic to try to cause problems for the NSA, 
	3) The NSA isn't really monitoring all the network traffic, or
	4) We might *all* be put into the NSA's files because of this.

Unfortunately, I just can't include your "reply inconvenience" in my list.
Are you aware that when you quote-for-reply you're NOT supposed to include 
the entire body of the posting? (If not, please be advised: you're supposed 
to trim the quote "as much as possible".)

Followups to talk.politics.misc (which I fortunately don't subscribe to :-)

garry wiegand   (garry%cadif-oak@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu)


For the sake of the discussion:

    NSA terrorist CIA cryptography DES drugs NRO cipher IRS secret RSA decode 
    coke libyan crack pot LSD russian nuclear missile atom assassinate 

(I've permuted the original list in case they've put an extra filter in)