{"id":5372,"date":"2012-05-26T14:44:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T19:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=3624"},"modified":"2012-05-26T14:44:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T19:44:13","slug":"emacs-mail-amusements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/26\/emacs-mail-amusements\/","title":{"rendered":"Emacs Mail Amusements"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apropos this<\/a>, cribbed from the GNU Emacs manual<\/a> by (originally) Richard Stallman<\/a>:<\/p>\n

35.6 Mail Amusements
\n====================<\/p>\n

`M-x spook’ adds a line of randomly chosen keywords to an outgoing mail
\nmessage. The keywords are chosen from a list of words that suggest you
\nare discussing something subversive.<\/p>\n

The idea behind this feature is the suspicion that the NSA(1) and
\nother intelligence agencies snoop on all electronic mail messages that
\ncontain keywords suggesting they might find them interesting. (The
\nagencies say that they don’t, but that’s what they _would_ say.) The
\nidea is that if lots of people add suspicious words to their messages,
\nthe agencies will get so busy with spurious input that they will have
\nto give up reading it all. Whether or not this is true, it at least
\namuses some people.<\/p>\n

You can use the `fortune’ program to put a “fortune cookie” message
\ninto outgoing mail. To do this, add `fortune-to-signature’ to
\n`mail-setup-hook’:<\/p>\n

(add-hook ‘mail-setup-hook ‘fortune-to-signature)<\/p>\n

You will probably need to set the variable `fortune-file’ before using
\nthis.<\/p>\n

———- Footnotes ———-<\/p>\n

(1) The US National Security Agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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