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From: dougf@wega.Caltech.Edu (Doug Freyburger)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Subliminal
Keywords: RFC 1097
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Date: 10 Apr 89 17:39:39 GMT
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In article <6464@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> rjh@cs.purdue.EDU (Bob Hathaway) writes:
>[This is a comment on RFC 1097, which provides a standard for sending 
>and receiving subliminal messages across the internet.  Since newsgroups
>are a potential victim of subliminal messages, I'm cross-posting this
>article.]
>
>I sincerely hope RFC 1097 is a joke, subliminal suggestion is a devious and
>underhanded way to influence people into taking actions or adopt ideas
>without their consent.  People should be afraid to look at terminals if
>there is a possibility subliminal messages are being sent.  Why isn't this
>practice illegal?
>rjh@purdue.edu

Was this RFC published on April 1st by chance?  I hope so.
Subliminal advertising has been illegal in most states for
decades.

The examples given do indicated 1 Apr as their date.  "Use VMS"
because it is a "stable operating system" and talk about flow-
control that sounds like it is from an Emacs-nik.
dougf@wega.caltech.edu

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