At 2:37 AM 8/13/96, David Kennedy wrote:
My mailer thinks the e$pam list pulled this from cypherpunks:
And I'll bet you're still looking for "Oceania" in your atlas? This is one of the main reasons I hate it when my articles get "spammed" to other lists, lists where people have no idea of who I am and no idea of my sense of humor. For the clueless, I simply took the "Defense Authorization" bill which had been posted to Cypherpunks by geeman@best.com and replaced a few of the words involving "explosives" with "cryptography." Oh, and I twiddled the number of the bill to include "666." Finally, I even said "This may not be real, but it could be" at the end. Jeesh. The worst part of having my stuff spammed, e-spammed, gurgitated, and regurgitated is that I get letters from people saying "I saw this thing you wrote on the Kangaroo Hopping List. What is "crypto"? Thanks a bunch, dude." Wake up. And for those who forward my stuff, please include appropriate disclaimers to your "spammees" that a) one should read things with an appreciation that a post may be tongue in cheek, b) that back-spamming to another list is not cool, and c) that I don't want to be bothered.
S.1666
Department of Commerce Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 (Passed by the Senate) <<
And this is bogus, and as far as I can tell not a typo, it's complete hokum.
S.1666 is an obscure bill about courts in Utah.
A search of http://thomas.loc.gov on "encryption" reveals the expected bills, PRO-CODE etc.
A search for the DoC Authorization Act reveals nothing, as far as I can tell this bill has not been drafted let alone passed. I don't know enough about how the DoC is funded to know if they get their own Authorization Act or receive authorizations piecemeal and by the reconciliation.
Again, this is bogus.
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