From: Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 12:38:00 -0800 (PST)
To: harka@nycmetro.com
Subject: Re: Trigger-Words...
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On Wed, 29 Jan 1997 harka@nycmetro.com wrote:

> Actually, I might not have chosen the correct words for what I
> wanted...
> I am looking for sniffer-programs, that analyze e-mail traffic on
> the Net and filtering out all e-mails potentially interesting for
> _intelligence services_. For example, I've heard, that if an e-mail
> contains the words: "assassinate President" (DISCLAIMER: I hope, our
> President lives a long and happy life, even after his
> impeachment...:)), it will automatically get filtered and checked
> out by the Secret Service.

Everytime someone sends a message through White House web site to the
president ( there is a comment form on the site ) it is scanned for
keywords. It probably happens on other key avenues as well.

Of course there are exceptions to every rule. I heard of a woman who wrote
to Clinton something like:
You are such a dynamite leader. I think you have such an explosive
personality, and I'm dying to meet you.

If you want to scan your E-mail, write a little perl script that takes a
list of keywords to scan for, and the action to take when the keywords are
found. It shouldn't be too hard.

-- Elliot                                 http://www.redhat.com/
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