Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!convex!convexs!rotheroe From: rotheroe@convexs.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Animation programs for IBM PC -- do Message-ID: <117000001@convexs> Date: Mon, 12-Jan-87 12:00:00 EST Article-I.D.: convexs.117000001 Posted: Mon Jan 12 12:00:00 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Jan-87 18:39:50 EST References: <850@uwmacc.UUCP> Lines: 26 Nf-ID: #R:uwmacc.UUCP:850:convexs:117000001:000:1467 Nf-From: convexs.UUCP!rotheroe Jan 12 11:00:00 1987 > A recent posting contained a list of keywords to trigger some NSA filter. > People who do this should realize that if NSA is actually running such a > filter, they are also probably keeping a list of the articles and all of > the responses to it. Thus people who reply to such articles may end up > on a list that could be used against them. The list of junk keywords is > cute, but when it jeopardizes people's professional or personal lives (as > such things inevitably do) or the continued existence of open networks > people should think carefully before engaging in this sort of baiting. > Attitudes at NSA may well need changing, but this is not the appropriate > way to do it. It wasn't me, but I probably would have done it if I had thought of it. The NSA (oops, a keyword) probably already has a file on all of us. First, anyone who works for a defense contractor or supplier automatically gets one, second I'm sure they keep track of who uses the net - ya never know who's going to post the latest SDI (oops, another one) code. In any case, I really doubt if "it jeopardizes people's professional or personal lives". Relax (read: don't be so paranoid), and have some fun. Dave Rotheroe {allegra, ihnp4, uiucdcs, ctvax}!convex!rotheroe "Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the Hal plant in Urbana, Illinois, on the twelfth of January, 1992." 2001 & 2010 (book only for 2010)