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by mixmaster＠remail.obscura.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"Drivers Must Allow Fingerprinting" By Ralph Ellis _The Atlanta Constitution_ 9/19/96 "Georgians renewing or getting a new driver's license after Sept. 30 will have to provide the state with two fingerprints. "The right and left index fingerprints will be taken with an inkless scanning device that is part of a digital imaging system being installed in 82 driver's license examination offices across the state said Gordy Wright, spokesman for the Georgia Department of Public Safety. SNIP "The fingerprints will make it difficult for people to obtain licenses with falsified identification papers, Wright said. "Teresa Nelson of the Ga. Civil Liberties Union said the fingerprinting invades the privacy of law-abiding citizens. "'I have grave concerns,' she said. 'When we think of giving a fingerprint, we think of being arrested. We feel like we've done something wrong, not because we are complying with the law and are doing something right.' "There will be no exceptions to the fingerprint requirement..., Wright said, adding that 'having a driver's license is a privilege,' not a right. SNIP "Wright said...the fingerprints eventually will be available to other law enforcement agencies and courts.... SNIP "The new licenses will include an instant photo....A bar code on the back will contain a laser recording of the driver's index fingerprints...."

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Insider Trading - news report
by barina man 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Return-Path: cypherpunks-errors(a)toad.com >Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 15:46 EDT >From: "E. Allen Smith" <EALLENSMITH(a)ocelot.Rutgers.EDU> >Subject: Insider Trading - news report >To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com >X-Envelope-to: cypherpunks(a)toad.com >X-VMS-To: IN%"cypherpunks(a)toad.com" >Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com > > I'd be curious as to the comments of Black Unicorn and others on >that legal finding - it does appear to make things at least a bit better >in this area... including making it difficult to claim that insider >information shouldn't be transmitted on the Net. Incidentally, I find >AP's calling insider trading "fraud" rather biased. > -Allen > >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Direct Media >> _________________________________________________________________ >> INSIDER TRADING NEVER WENT AWAY >> __________________________________________________________________________ >> Copyright &copy 1996 Nando.net >> Copyright &copy 1996 The Associated Press > >> WASHINGTON (Sep 18, 1996 10:35 a.m. EDT) -- One of the most infamous >> acts in the financial fraudster's playbook, insider trading, remains >> at record levels, despite a decade of steady crackdowns by regulators. > >[...] > >> The SEC brought one of its more unusual insider trading cases on >> Monday, when it sued the unnamed account holders in a Swiss and >> Bahamian accounts with insider trading ahead of The Gillette Co.'s >> merger proposal for Duracell International. > >[...] > >> One disturbing development for regulators is a recent decision by the >> 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that struck down one of the SEC's >> main enforcement tools in insider trading cases. > >> The court, which covers several Midwestern states, rejected the >> so-called "misappropriation theory" in insider trading cases, which is >> used to nab people trading on inside information who don't owe a >> fiduciary duty to the company's shareholders. The court also rejected >> an SEC rule used to snare insider trading in tender offers. > >> The 8th Circuit decision came in August in a Justice Department case >> against Minneapolis attorney James H. O'Hagan, who was charged with >> insider trading during the 1988 takeover bid of Pillsbury Co. by Grand >> Metropolitan PLC. SEC General Counsel Richard Walker has asked the >> appeals court for a rehearing on the matter. > >> While the 8th Circuit decision represents a setback for the SEC, the >> agency usually brings its cases in the New York and Chicago areas, >> where the federal courts acknowledge these insider trading rules. > >> Regulators say these enforcement tools are important because insider >> trading follows few patterns. In an analysis of 35 cases brought in >> 1995 that solely dealt with insider trading, Gerlach said 20 involved >> trading ahead of mergers, three ahead of other positive corporate >> announcements and six ahead of bad corporate news. > >> He described 16 of the cases as "classic insider trading" involving an >> executive, company director or employee who traded on confidential, >> market sensitive information or tipped friends about it. Among the >> remaining cases, four involved trading by securities brokers or other >> industry officials, four involved law firm employees and one, an >> employee at an outside accounting firm. > >> Investigators at the Nasdaq Stock Market's market surveillance unit >> refer a significant number of insider trading cases to the SEC. Halley >> Milligan, who heads a team of nine insider trading investigators at >> Nasdaq, said the market has made 73 referrals on suspected insider >> trading to the SEC so far in 1996, which is on par with last year, >> when 107 cases were referred to the agency. > >> Nasdaq, like major stock markets, uses sophisticated computer >> technology to sniff out illegal trading. The Nasdaq system is called >> SWAT, or Stock Watch Automatic Tracking, which scans news databases >> after detecting any unusual trading. > >[...] > >> Copyright &copy 1996 Nando.net > >unsubsribe please

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Stego inside encryption
by Mullen Patrick 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I know a lot of times the idea behind steganography is to hide the fact that a secret message is in a seemingly normal file/mail/whatever. This is good for avoiding unwanted interest in your file. The benefit of not having people attempt to crack you code, added to the strength of the cryptosystem is wonderful. However, I propose this-- Don't hide that anything's encrypted! Rather than hide this fact, throw it in their face! I propose hiding an encrypted message inside another encrypted message. Set bits in specific places to data in the real message. The benefit is Oscar not only doesn't know what the crypto is, he attacks the wrong message. Hiding statistically random bits from the true message in statistically random bits from the masking message shouldn't be too hard. Granted, this scheme doesn't get you past measures designed to keep out all encrypted messages, and it surely wouldn't keep you message from generating interest, but it would be very hard to decrypt the message, especially when some algorithm is used which (seemingly) randomly selects which bits to use for the stego. Just a thought... My apologies if someone has already proposed this method. Patrick

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1997 USENIX Technical Conference info
by Matt Blaze 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

USENIX 1997 ANNUAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE January 6-10, 1997, Anaheim, California Co-Located with: USELINUX: Linux Applications Development & Deployment Conference Co-Sponsored by Linux International and the USENIX Association PROGRAM AT A GLANCE AND IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER ===================================================== Early Registration Savings Deadline: November 22, 1996 Hotel Discount Deadline: December 20, 1996 ===================================================== SUNDAY, JANUARY 5 Registration 4:00pm - 9:00pm Kickoff Reception 6:00pm - 9:00pm MONDAY, JANUARY 6 Registration 7:30am - 5:00pm Tutorials 9:00am - 5:00pm TUESDAY, JANUARY 7 Registration 7:30am - 5:00pm Tutorials 9:00am - 5:00pm Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions 6:00pm - 10:00pm WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8 Registration 7:30am - 6:00pm Keynote Address 9:00am - 10:30am Technical Sessions 11:00am - 5:00pm USELINUX Developers 9:00am - 5:30pm Vendor Display 12:00am - 7:00pm USELINUX Case Studies 7:30pm - 11:00pm Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions 7:30pm - 11:00pm THURSDAY, JANUARY 9 Registration 7:30am - 6:00pm Technical Sessions 9:00am - 6:00pm USELINUX Developers 9:00am - 5:30pm Vendor Display 10:00am - 4:00pm Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions 6:00pm - 10:00pm USELINUX Case Studies 6:00pm - 10:00pm FRIDAY, JANUARY 10 Technical Sessions 9:00am - 5:45pm USELINUX Business 9:00am - 4:00pm NEW AT ANAHEIM: =============== USELINUX, the Linux Applications Development and Deployment Conference, co-sponsored by Linux International and USENIX. If you are: An application developer porting or developing Linux applications, a system admininistrator having to maintain Linux systems, a business person who wishes to develop a Linux business, plan to attend USELINUX. One fee covers the registration for both conference programs, and you can go freely back and forth between them. (Tutorials carry a separate fee for both USENIX and USELINUX). ================================= TUTORIAL PROGRAM Monday-Tuesday, January 6-7, 1997 ================================= Register now to guarantee your first choice - seating is limited. Tutorial fees include printed and bound tutorial materials from your sessions, lunch, CD-ROM with Tutorials, Referreed Papers, and Invited Talks, Admission to the Vendor Exhibits TUTORIAL OVERVIEW Monday, January 6 ================= M1: Beginning Perl Programming for UNIX Programmers (Updated for Perl 5) M2: The Kerberos Approach to Network Security (Updated). M3: An Introduction to Java M4: Secure Java Programming M5: Windows NT and Windows 95 - The Win32 API M6: UNIX Network Programming M7: Selected Topics in System Administration (New) M8: How Networks Work - The Limits of Modern Internetworking (Updated) M9: System and Network Performance Tuning (New) M10: Inside the Linux 2.0 Kernel (New) Tuesday, January 7 ================= T1: UNIX Security Tools: Use and Comparison. T2: CGI and WWW Programming in Perl (New) T3: Security on the World Wide Web (New) T4: Creating Effective User Interfaces (New) T5: Java Applets and the AWT (New) T6: Setting Up And Administering A Web Server (New) T7: Security for Software Developers: How to Write Code that Withstands Hostile Environments (New) T8: Solaris System Administration (New) T9: IP version 6: An Introduction T10: Writing Device Drivers Under Linux (New) COMPLETE TUTORIAL DISCRIPTIONS Are available on our Website, http://www.usenix.org ==================================== TECHNICAL PROGRAM Wednesday-Friday, January 8-10, 1997 ==================================== TECHNICAL SESSIONS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8 9:00-10:30 Opening Remarks: John Kohl, Pure Atria Corporation Keynote Address: Developing on "Internet Time" James Gosling, Sun Microsystems REFEREED PAPERS 11:00-12:30: PERFORMANCE I Embedded Inodes and Explicit Grouping: Exploiting Disk Bandwidth for Small Files Gregory R. Ganger and M. Frans Kaashoek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Observing the Effects of Multi-Zone Disks Rodney Van Meter, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California A Revisitation of Kernel Synchronization Schemes Christopher Small and Stephen Manley, Harvard University 2:00-3:30: INTERFACE TRICKS Porting UNIX to Windows NT David G. Korn, AT&T Research Protected Shared Libraries - A New Approach to Modularity and Sharing Arindam Banerji, John M. Tracey, and David L. Cohn, University of Notre Dame A Novel Way of Extending the Operating System at the User-Level: the Ufo Global File System Albert D. Alexandrov, Maximilian Ibel, Klaus E. Schauser, and Chris J. Scheiman, University of California, Santa Barbara 4:00-5:00: CLIENT TRICKS Network-aware Mobile Programs Mudumbai Ranganathan, Anurag Acharya, Shamik Sharma, and Joel Saltz, University of Maryland Using Smart Clients to Build Scalable Services Chad Yoshikawa, Brent Chun, Paul Eastham, Amin Vahdat, Thomas Anderson, and David Culler, University of California, Berkeley THURSDAY, JANUARY 9 9:00-10:30: CLUSTERING Building Distributed Process Management on an Object-Oriented Framework Ken Shirriff, Sun Microsystems Laboratories Adaptive and Reliable Parallel Computing on Networks of Workstations Robert D. Blumofe, University of Texas, Austin and Philip A. Lisiecki, Massachusetts Institute of Technology A Distributed Shared Memory Facility for FreeBSD Pedro A. Souto and Eugene W. Stark, State University of New York, Stony Brook 11:00-12:30: TOOLS Libcdt: A General and Efficient Container Data Type Library Kiem-Phong Vo, AT&T Research A Simple and Extensible Graphical Debugger David R. Hanson and Jeffrey L. Korn, Princeton University Cget, Cput, and Stage Safe File Transport Tools for the Internet Bill Cheswick, Bell Laboratories 2:00-3:30: WORKS IN PROGRESS FRIDAY, JANUARY 10 9:00-10:30: USER SOMETHING WebGlimpse - Combining browsing and searching Udi Manber, Michael Smith, and Burra Gopal, University of Arizona Mailing List Archive Tools Sam Leffler and Melange Tortuba, Silicon Graphics Experience with GroupLens: Making Usenet Useful Again Bradley N. Miller, John T. Riedl, and Joseph A. Konstan, University of Minnesota 11:00-12:30: PERFORMANCE II Overcoming Workstation Scheduling Problems in a Real-Time Audio Tool Isidor Kouvelas and Vicky Hardman, University College London On Designing Lightweight Threads for Substrate Software Matthew Haines, University of Wyoming High-Performance Local-Area Communication With Fast Sockets Steven H. Rodrigues, Thomas E. Anderson, and David E. Culler, University of California, Berkeley 2:00-3:30: CACHING and STASHING An Analytical Approach to File Prefetching Hui Lei and Dan Duchamp, Columbia University Optimistic Deltas for WWW Latency Reduction Gaurav Banga, Fred Douglis, and Michael Rabinovich, AT&T Research A Toolkit Approach to Partially Connected Operation Dan Duchamp, Columbia University 4:15-5:45: JOINT CLOSING SESSION Severe Tire Damage's Stupid Mbone Tricks - A Lecture/Demonstration INVITED TALKS ============= WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8 11:00-12:30: Nomadicity and the IETF Charles E. Perkins, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center 2:00-3:30: If Cryptography Is So Great, Why Isnt It Used More? Matt Blaze, AT&T Research 4:00-5:00: The Inktomi Web Search Engine Eric Brewer, University of California, Berkeley THURSDAY, JANUARY 9 9:00-10:30: The AltaVista Web Search Engine Louis Monier, Digital Equipment Corporation 11:00-12:30: IPv6: The New Version of the Internet Protocol Steve Deering, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 2:00-3:30: Highlights from 1996 USENIX Conferences and Workshops 4:00-5:30: Inferno Rob Pike, Bell Labs FRIDAY, JANUARY 10 9:00-10:30: Measuring Computer Systems: How to Tell the Truth with Numbers Margo Seltzer and Aaron Brown, Harvard University 11:00-12:30: Stupid Net Tricks Bill Cheswick, Bell Laboratories 2:00-3:30: Finding Bugs in Concurrent Programs Gerard J. Holzmann, Bell Laboratories USELINUX PROGRAM ================= USELINUX DEVELOPERS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8 9:00-10:30: Linux: What It Is and Why It Is Significant Mark Bolzern, Work Group Solutions Tom Miller, X Engineering Software Systems 11:00-12:30: The Sparc Port of Linux David S. Miller, Rutgers CAIP Miguel de Icaza, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Ciudad Universitaria, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico 2:00-3:30: Advanced Device Drivers Alessandro Rubini, Universita di Pavia 4:00-5:00: Future of the Linux Kernel Linus Torvalds, Helsinki University THURSDAY, JANUARY 9 9:00-10:30: Real Time Victor Yodaiken and Michael Barabanov, New Mexico Institute of Technology 11:00-12:30: /proc Stephen Tweedie, Digital Equipment Corporation 11:00-12:30: The Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) Framework Ted Tso, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2:00-3:30: Standards Heiko Eissfeldt, Unifix Software 4:00-5:30: Connecting Legacy and Open Systems Michael Callahan, Stelias Computing, Inc. USELINUX BUSINESS ================= FRIDAY, JANUARY 10 9:00-9:30: Linux: What It Is and Why It Is Significant Mark Bolzern, Work Group Solutions Tom Miller, X Engineering Software Systems 9:30-10:30: Linux and Distribution Channels: Ways to Enter the Commercial Market Dan Rosenberg, Stromian Technologies 11:00-12:30: Using Linux in Your Business: A Business Justification Presented by Linux International 2:00-4:00: The Linux Market: Who, What, Where, When and Why? Presented by Linux International USELINUX PRESENTATIONS AND CASE STUDIES DESCRIPTIONS ==================================================== WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 7:30pm - 11:00pm The Use of Linux for Dedicated Systems Chel van Gennip, HISCOM BV Perceptions: A Strategic Deployment of Linux in the Health Care Environment Greg Wettstein, Velocity LLC The Future of the Linux Desktop Ken Apa, Governors State University; Jim Fetters, Chicago Mercantile Exchange; Joe Sloan, Toyota Motor Sales USA The Classroom of the Future Karl Jeacle, Broadcom Eireann Research Ltd. THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 6:00pm - 10:30pm Using GNUstep to Deploy User Applications Scott Christley, NET-Community Embedded, Turnkey and Real Time Phil Hughes, Linux Journal Developing Linux-based Electronic Markets for Internet Trading Experiments Paul J. 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by steve＠tsearch.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: All Bets Off
by DMiskell＠envirolink.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Jeff Davis wrote: > >> > Just so this isn't hanging in cyberspace forever, my $5,000 bet for >> > anyone to prove the TWA 800 flight was downed by a U.S. missile is now >> > *off the table*. >> >> I heard through the family grapevine that they have pictures of a Stinger >> taking out the plane they're analyzing in the Pentagon. There are 220+ >> Stingers *missing* in the US, so its not like they have to smuggle them >> in... (That's not proof by any means, but *my* family grapevine has always >> been very reliable. The cousin who told me this has a Dad who flew as >> the intelligence officer observer on Bronco flights out of Quang Tri for >> 18 months, rotating out just before the base was over run in May of '72.) > >Does this cousin also have an aunt who lived next door to Joe Montana's >babysitter? I might know his father ... > >Ask your family grapevine about the stinger's op altitude, and the >altitute of the TWA when it broke up - I don't have Jane's lying around, >but it seems that the TWA plane was a tad bit high for a stinger. > >- r.w. I recall that Tom Clancy, who has written a number of military fiction novels, for which he has done endless notebooks full of research for, made a statement about this. He said, simply, that the TWA jet's explosion was at such an altitude, that even if someone did it from a boat directly under, it was still far too high for a Stinger missile to reach, much less dammage. Just thought I would throw that out there. Tom Clancy is not a military-hired brain, but to make his novels realistic and to do justice to the people he portrays, he does a LOT of research. He is a highly respected author, and I have no doubt that his statement is based on his personal findings, collected for a previous novel. -- If in fact we are the only intelligent life on this planet, why the fuck are we in this goddamn mess? -- Find my public key on the World Wide Web -- point your browser at: http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html

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Re: CIA web site hacked
by Eric Murray 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Chain: 2 Mike van der Merwe writes: > > > Hi everybody > > Heh! This one's good for a laugh :-)) > > http://www.odci.gov/cia > > Seems the DOJ hack was a good inspiration. Heh! Life's good when you're > willing to work at it. www.odci.gov appears to have been shut down (as of 11:50am EDT). Did anyone make a copy of the hacked pages?

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[NOISE] White house docs
by Marshall Clow 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Just for fun: go to <http://www.whitehouse.gov>, go into the library, and ask to search everything. Search for "key recovery". Here's a partial list of what you get: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Public Press Releases October 6, 1996 HARTFORD DEBATE '96: THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE BETWEEN PRESIDENT CLINTON AND SENATOR DOLE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ White House Website Franklin D. Roosevelt ...recovery ... http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/presidents/html/fr32.html Franklin D. Roosevelt [Text Version] ...recovery ... http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/presidents/html/fr32-plain.html Making West Virginia a Better Place to Live and Work ...Key Industries. After a decade of enormous job losses ... http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Accomplishments/states/html/wv.html Making Hawaii a Better Place to Live and Work ...Key Industries. After a decade of enormous job losses ... http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Accomplishments/states/html/hw.html Making Oregon a Better Place to Live and Work ...Key Industries. After a decade of enormous job losses ... http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Accomplishments/states/html/or.html Making Montana a Better Place to Live and Work ...Key Industries. After a decade of enormous job losses ... http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Accomplishments/states/html/mt.html and on for the rest of the 50 states. These web pages are all (ok, I looked at a few, not all) titled: "Making XXX a Better Place to Live and Work" and subtitled: "America Is Moving In the Right Direction Under President Clinton" So I compared the "accomplishments" for Oregon and Montana. Discounting all the places where the name of the state was the only thing changed, I was left with: Oregon: *Unemployment Rate in Oregon Has Declined from 8.0% to 4.7%. *Consumer Confidence Is Up 43%, After Dropping During the Prior Four *155,000 New Jobs in 33 Months -- More than the Entire Previous *145,323 Working Families Receive a Tax Cut. The President's expanded *332 New Police Officers in Oregon. The President's Crime Bill puts 332 *431,000 Workers Protected by Family and Medical Leave. The Family and Montana: *Unemployment Rate in Montana Has Declined from 6.6% to 5.9%. *Consumer Confidence Is Up 71%, After Dropping During the Prior Four *39,200 New Jobs in 33 Months -- More than the Entire Previous *47,638 Working Families Receive a Tax Cut. The President's expanded *120 New Police Officers in Montana. The President's Crime Bill puts 120 *76,000 Workers Protected by Family and Medical Leave. The Family and -- Marshall Marshall Clow Aladdin Systems <mailto:mclow@mailhost2.csusm.edu> "We're not gonna take it/Never did and never will We're not gonna take it/Gonna break it, gonna shake it, let's forget it better still" -- The Who, "Tommy"

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USPS electronic postmark
by Jonathan Litt 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Today I was at the Internet Expo in Boston and I sent myself a postmarked email from the USPS booth. It is enclosed below for all to scrutinize. Here is an excerpt from the literature they had: "The United States Postal Service has entered into a limited market test phase for the Electronic Postmark, Archival, and Authentication Services. This is a fee for service test. The Electronic Postmark applies a time and date stamp to an electronic document, hashes it, and digitally signs the document with a Postal Service private key. ... The Electronic Postmark Processor time and date stamps the message, hashes it using the SHA hashing algorithm and digitally signs this with the Postal Service DSA 1024-bit private key. For the market trial we will use CCITT X.500 Section X.509 V3 certificate public/private key technology with the federal standard Digital Signature Algorithm." I will also paraphrase something that was said by one of the people at the booth: "We always send the message itself as an attachment. The message that you see at first shows the postmark, and warns you not to open the attachment if you are not the intended recipient. Just as with normal mail, it is a federal crime to double click on the attachment to view the contents of the message if the message is not for you." Further BS of this nature can be found at: http://www.aegisstar.com/uspsepm.html My favorite line from that web page is: Postal ECS plans on regularly changing the Postal Service private key as recommended by cryptography experts, which will only require the redistribution of the VERIFY.DLL file to Mail Reader users. Wow, it _only_ requires distributing a new public key to all users! As stated above, here is the message in its entirety, exactly as it arrived in my mailbox. Below that is the base64 decoded for your convenience. -jon ------- Forwarded Message Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po9.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA03633; Wed, 16 Oct 96 13:34:14 EDT Received: from corpmail.aegisstar.com by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA26235; Wed, 16 Oct 96 13:34:13 EDT Received: from router1.fac1.aegisstar.com by aegisstar.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA03398; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 10:33:24 -0700 From: demo3(a)hypersurf.com Received: by router1.fac1.aegisstar.com (SMI-8.6/AegisRouter) id RAA10130; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 17:33:40 GMT >X-Special-Header: Wed Oct 16 17:33:19 GMT 1996 Message-Id: <0.0.0.0.21828.1996.Oct.16.17.33.19(a)4.1.aegisstar.com> Date: Wed Oct 16 17:33:19 GMT 1996 Reply-To: demo3(a)hypersurf.com Errors-To: demo3(a)hypersurf.com Subject: test postmark To: littlitt(a)MIT.EDU Mime-Version: 1.0 (Aegis Star MIME v1.0) Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="PART.BOUNDARY.0.0.0.0.21828.1996.Oct.16.17.33.19(a)4.1.aegisstar.com" - --PART.BOUNDARY.0.0.0.0.21828.1996.Oct.16.17.33.19(a)4.1.aegisstar.com Content-type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: read1st.txt Content-Name: read1st.txt ***************************************************************************** ******* U.S. Postal Service Electronically Postmarked Mail ******* Date & time: 1996/10/16 17:33:10 GMT ******* ECTPID: 00000119961016173310,3317 ******* Postmarked in Palo Alto, California ***************************************************************************** NOTICE: The Postal Service preserves the security of all electronically postmarked messages in its custody from unauthorized interception, inspection or reading of contents, or tampering, delay or other unauthorized acts. The attached message has been sent to you Electronically Postmarked by the United States Postal Service. The contents have been digitally signed and can be authenticated using the U.S. Postal Service Mail Reader (you can receive a free copy from http://www.aegisstar.com or e-mail us at support(a)aegisstar.com) If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any viewing, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is prohibited. Only littlitt(a)mit.edu may view the enclosed message. - --PART.BOUNDARY.0.0.0.0.21828.1996.Oct.16.17.33.19(a)4.1.aegisstar.com Content-type: application/x-USPSpostmarked; name=P0010CF5.msg Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=P0010CF5.msg Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Description: U.S. Postal Service Mail Content-Name: P0010CF5.msg RnJvbSBkZW1vM0BoeXBlcnN1cmYuY29tICBXZWQgT2N0IDE2IDE3OjMzOjAzIDE5OTYNClgt QUVUWVBFOiBFUE0NClgtSUQ6IDMzMTcNClgtVVNQUy1OT1RJQ0U6ICBUaGlzIGRvY3VtZW50 IGhhcyBiZWVuIGVsZWN0cm9uaWNhbGx5IHBvc3RtYXJrZWQgYnkgdGhlIFVuaXRlZCBTdGF0 ZXMgUG9zdGFsIFNlcnZpY2UNClgtVElNRVNUQU1QOiAgMTk5Ni8xMC8xNiAxNzozMzoxMCBH TVQNClgtUE9TVEFHRTogIDIyLCA1OTMsIDENClgtU046ICA5ODYNClgtRE46ICBjPVVTQG89 VVNQUy1BZWdpcyBTdGFyIFBpbG90QGNuPVVTUFMsIEFFR0lTDQpYLVVTUFMtTk9USUNFOiAg RWxlY3Ryb25pYyBQb3N0bWFya2luZyBQaWxvdCBTeXN0ZW0NClgtVVNQUy1QT1NUTUFSSzog IEVDVFBJRCAgMDAwMDAxMTk5NjEwMTYxNzMzMTAsMzMxNw0KWC1SOiAgOThBNjhGOUY2MTE0 ODRCRUQ5NzI5M0ZBQkVBRkFCQUQyNjMyREZDMA0KWC1TOiAgQUE5QTIwN0Y2OTcwMTlCMjhD RDI0N0Q0QTkwRkU2OTVFMDZCODQ4Rg0KWC1ERVNUOiBsaXR0bGl0dEBtaXQuZWR1DQo+RnJv bSBkZW1vM0BoeXBlcnN1cmYuY29tICBXZWQgT2N0IDE2IDE3OjMzOjAzIDE5OTYNCk1lc3Nh Z2UtSWQ6IDwxOTk2MTAxNjE3MzkuS0FBMjIzNDRAbWVyY3VyeS5oeXBlcnN1cmYuY29tPg0K RnJvbTogIlVTUFMgRGVtbzMiIDxkZW1vM0BoeXBlcnN1cmYuY29tPg0KVG86IChwb3N0bWFy a2luZyBzeXN0ZW0pDQpTdWJqZWN0OiB0ZXN0IHBvc3RtYXJrDQpEYXRlOiBXZWQsIDE2IE9j dCAxOTk2IDEzOjM0OjIyIC0wNDAwDQpYLU1TTWFpbC1Qcmlvcml0eTogTm9ybWFsDQpYLVBy aW9yaXR5OiAzDQpYLU1haWxlcjogTWljcm9zb2Z0IEludGVybmV0IE1haWwgNC43MC4xMTU1 DQpNSU1FLVZlcnNpb246IDEuMA0KQ29udGVudC1UeXBlOiB0ZXh0L3BsYWluOyBjaGFyc2V0 PUlTTy04ODU5LTENCkNvbnRlbnQtVHJhbnNmZXItRW5jb2Rpbmc6IDdiaXQNCg0KdXNwb3N0 OmxpdHRsaXR0QG1pdC5lZHUKCnRlc3QgbWVzc2FnZQpoaQoKVGhpcyBpcyBvbmUgb2YgdGhl IGZpcnN0IFVTUFMgRUNTIGVsZWN0cm9uaWMgcG9zdG1hcmtzLiAgS2VlcCBpdCBmb3IgZnV0 dXJlCnBoaWxhdGVsaWMgdmFsdWUhCgo= - --PART.BOUNDARY.0.0.0.0.21828.1996.Oct.16.17.33.19(a)4.1.aegisstar.com-- ------- End of Forwarded Message base64 decoded: >From demo3(a)hypersurf.com Wed Oct 16 17:33:03 1996 X-AETYPE: EPM X-ID: 3317 X-USPS-NOTICE: This document has been electronically postmarked by the United States Postal Service X-TIMESTAMP: 1996/10/16 17:33:10 GMT X-POSTAGE: 22, 593, 1 X-SN: 986 X-DN: c=US@o=USPS-Aegis Star Pilot@cn=USPS, AEGIS X-USPS-NOTICE: Electronic Postmarking Pilot System X-USPS-POSTMARK: ECTPID 00000119961016173310,3317 X-R: 98A68F9F611484BED97293FABEAFABAD2632DFC0 X-S: AA9A207F697019B28CD247D4A90FE695E06B848F X-DEST: littlitt(a)mit.edu >From demo3(a)hypersurf.com Wed Oct 16 17:33:03 1996 Message-Id: <199610161739.KAA22344(a)mercury.hypersurf.com> From: "USPS Demo3" <demo3(a)hypersurf.com> To: (postmarking system) Subject: test postmark Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 13:34:22 -0400 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit uspost:littlitt@mit.edu test message hi This is one of the first USPS ECS electronic postmarks. Keep it for future philatelic value!

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Solution to the Dimitri Problem
by nobody＠replay.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Boy, it seems that our resident KOTM is now just posting for the hell of it - just get a kick out of seeing his own messages on this list. Therefore, I have a solution to this. Since he likes to see his own words so much, why don't we start sending him multiple copies of all of his words of wisdom? The following recipe for Procmail does the trick just fine. :0 * ^(From|Sender).*dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com ! dlv(a)bwalk.dm.com This recipe could also be modified to mail him multiple copies of his messages or anything you feel that he should see. Have fun with it! If enough people do this, we just might be able to get him to leave us alone for a while.

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