Jack Campin wrote: | Steve Mansfield's mailer wrote: | > User-Agent: T-gnus/6.15.3 (based on Oort Gnus v0.03) (revision 01) | > SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.3 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Unebigory=F2mae?=) | > APEL/10.3 MULE XEmacs/21.4 (patch 4) (Artificial Intelligence) | > (i386-debian-linux) | | I am really disappointed that this agent can't also report what brand | of aftershave you're using or OCR the slogan on your t-shirt into the | message signature via a webcam.
If it's typical of gnu software, it probably has the second feature now, but Steve's machine doesn't have the hardware. And the gnu folks already have a project underway, funded by the new Office of Homeland Defense, to implement the first. And when John Ashcroft's anti-terrorism proposals go into effect, all computers will be required to have the hardware to do both, the options will be enabled by default, and turning the options off will be evidence in court of being part of a terrorist conspiracy. (I wonder if it's possible to encode hidden messages in an ABC tune without altering the actual notes of the tune.) To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
