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Mail Amusements
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   `M-x spook' adds a line of randomly chosen keywords to an outgoing
mail message.  The keywords are chosen from a list of words that suggest
you are discussing something subversive.

   The idea behind this feature is the suspicion that the NSA(1) snoops
on all electronic mail messages that contain keywords suggesting they
might find them interesting.  (The NSA says they don't, but that's what
they _would_ say.)  The idea is that if lots of people add suspicious
words to their messages, the NSA will get so busy with spurious input
that they will have to give up reading it all.

   Here's how to insert spook keywords automatically whenever you start
entering an outgoing message:

     (add-hook 'mail-setup-hook 'spook)

   Whether or not this confuses the NSA, it at least amuses people.

   You can use the `fortune' program to put a "fortune cookie" message
into outgoing mail.  To do this, add `fortune-to-signature' to
`mail-setup-hook':

     (add-hook 'mail-setup-hook 'fortune-to-signature)

   ---------- Footnotes ----------

   (1) The US National Security Agency.