From: anonymous@extropia.wimsey.com
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 94 03:52:08 PDT
To: sonny@netcom.com
Subject: Soda "Keywords" Idiocy
Message-ID: <199404111036.AA01928@xtropia>
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 Uu> Isaac Norby writes:
 > INTERNET: Isaac.Norby@f217.n125.z1.FIDONET.ORG
 > >>ira shipment of cocaine
 > >>explosives detonate
 >   --------

 Uu> I sent mail to hh@soda.berkeley.edu with Subject: remailer-info.  I
 Uu> got some info back that included:

 > = A note about keywords

[This was not in the original info-pack I got back when...]

 > This remailer inserts keywords into the headers and tailers of all posts and
 > remails.  These headers contain phrases which would probably trigger
 > automated net monitoring programs, rendering them less effective.  This
 > insertion is completely automatic and certainly does not constitute a
 > statement of intent by anyone (especially the remailer operator) to do
 > anything.

This is simply idiotic, worse than Hollander's childish admonition not
to throw knives.  All "keywords" do is light up those readers who do not
know what they're about, something that Hollander should explain in the
footer if he continues to do this.  These keywords ought to be placed
WITHIN the remailer disclaimer in order to make sure that readers know
where they originated and by whom.

Anyway, I won't be using the Soda remailer again.

        IN