Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!unisoft!hoptoad!ian From: ian@hoptoad.uucp (Ian Darwin) Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix Subject: Re: WARN users of caffeine pills, codeine-based headache remedies Message-ID: <4760@hoptoad.uucp> Date: 23 Jun 88 07:22:08 GMT References: <88Jun16.184430edt.20815@sq.sq.com> <1730@tolerant.UUCP> <129@edson.UUCP> Reply-To: ian@sq.com (Ian Darwin) Organization: visiting some random netnoise machine Lines: 31 As the original poster of the article on this topic: First, let me apologize for including caffeine in the list of things to be warned about. I was misinformed. I wanted to get the warning out in time for those travelling to Usenix, so was less careful than I might have been. Sorry!! In response to the person who said I shouldn't expect to see undercover drug enforcement agents snooping around USENIX, of course. The context of the posting was, or so I tried to make it, that of crossing the border INTO the U.S.A. When you cross international borders in "modern times" you become subject to the possibility of active snooping by agents of the state. To the people who said I was overreacting, I have a seconder: >I read an article in the local paper last week about a BC couple who spent >$2500 on legal fees to reclaim their car. Their offence? One package of >cigarette papers in the woman's purse... I didn't see that article, nor do we get to check it out since we don't have a reference. However I have been hearing these stories a lot lately. When I get back from USENIX I will try to track down at least the MacLean's article I originally referred to. Thanks everybody. Ian Darwin ian@sq.com (please ignore the return path of this article and of the original posting - the former because I am posting from a guest account on hoptoad during USENIX, and the latter because of a bug in sq's mail/news software).