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From: tada@athena.mit.edu (Michael Zehr)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: long-distance monitoring
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Date: 25 Apr 88 03:36:32 GMT
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In article <39.22719274@isishq.UUCP> doug@isishq.UUCP (Doug Thompson) writes:
> 
>Well, I've heard lots of talk of this, and often  from people with the 
>U.S. *.mil arpa addresses. They were talking about the net being 
>monitored. Clearly, it's not all that hard to do. A while back, some 
>people started deliberately filling their signature files with USSR, 
>ASSASSIN, HIJACK, etc. etc. etc., with the explicit intention of 
>swamping any such monitoring device. 

I've noticed this too, and I've oftened wondered exactly what those
people were trying to do.  Presumably, they object to the US form of
government and want to see America infiltrated/weakened/whatever.
So, to those of you out there who do this: am I right?  Or won't you
admit to being anti-US?  

(Yes I realize I'm going to get flames about this... I'm expecting
it.)
-michael j zehr