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1 ;;; bruce.el --- bruce phrase utility for overloading the Communications -*- no-byte-compile: t -*- |
20323 | 2 ;;; Decency Act snoops, if any. |
3 | |
74509 | 4 ;; Copyright (C) 1988, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, |
79716 | 5 ;; 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
20323 | 6 |
7 ;; Maintainer: FSF | |
8 ;; Keywords: games | |
9 ;; Created: Jan 1997 | |
10 | |
11 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. | |
12 | |
13 ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
14 ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
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15 ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) |
20323 | 16 ;; any later version. |
17 | |
18 ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
19 ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
20 ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
21 ;; GNU General Public License for more details. | |
22 | |
23 ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
24 ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the | |
64085 | 25 ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, |
26 ;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. | |
20323 | 27 |
28 ;;; Commentary: | |
29 | |
30 ;; This program was written to protest the miss-named "Communications | |
31 ;; Decency Act of 1996. This Act bans "indecent speech", whatever that is, | |
42041 | 32 ;; from the Internet. For more on the CDA, see Richard Stallman's essay on |
20323 | 33 ;; censorship, included in the etc directory of emacs distributions 19.34 |
34 ;; and up. See also http://www.eff.org/blueribbon.html. | |
35 | |
36 ;; For many years, emacs has included a program called Spook. This program | |
37 ;; adds a series of "keywords" to email just before it goes out. On the | |
38 ;; theory that the NSA monitors people's email, the keywords would be | |
39 ;; picked up by the NSA's snoop computers, causing them to waste time | |
40 ;; reading your meeting schedule notices or other email boring to everyone | |
41 ;; but you and (you hope) the recipient. See below (I left in the original | |
42 ;; writeup when I made this conversion), or the emacs documentation at | |
43 ;; ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/emacs-manual*. | |
44 | |
45 ;; Bruce is a direct copy of spook, with the word "spook" replaced with | |
46 ;; the word "bruce". Thanks to "esr", whoever he, she or it may be, this | |
47 ;; conversion was an extremely easy piece of editing, suitable for a first | |
48 ;; essay at elisp programming. | |
49 | |
50 ;; You may think of the name as having been derived from a certain Monty | |
51 ;; Python routine. Or from Lenny Bruce, who opposed censorship in his own | |
52 ;; inimitable way. Bruce does exactly what Spook does: it throws keywords | |
53 ;; into your email messages or other documents. | |
54 | |
55 ;; However, in order to comply with the CDA as interpreted by Richard | |
56 ;; Stallman (see the essay on censorship), bruce is distributed without a | |
57 ;; data file from which to select words at random. Sorry about that. I | |
58 ;; believe the average user will be able to come up with a few words on | |
59 ;; his or her own. If that is a problem, feel free to ask any American | |
42041 | 60 ;; teenager, preferably one who attends a government school. Failing |
20323 | 61 ;; that, you might write to Mr. Clinton or Ms Reno or their successors and |
62 ;; ask them for suggestions. Think of it as a public spirited act: the | |
63 ;; time they spend answering you is time not spent persecuting someone | |
64 ;; else. However, do ask them to respond by snail mail, where their | |
65 ;; suggestions would be legal. | |
66 | |
67 ;; To build the data file, just start a file called bruce.lines in the etc | |
68 ;; directory of your emacs distribution. Note that each phrase or word has | |
69 ;; to be followed by an ascii 0, control-@. See the file spook.lines in | |
70 ;; the etc directory for an example. In emacs, use c-q c-@ to insert the | |
71 ;; ascii 0s. | |
72 | |
73 ;; Once you have edited up a data file, you have to tell emacs how to find | |
42041 | 74 ;; the program bruce. Add the following two lines to your .emacs file. Be |
20323 | 75 ;; sure to uncomment the second line. |
76 | |
77 ;; for bruce mode | |
78 ;; (autoload 'bruce "bruce" "Use the Bruce program to protest the CDA" t) | |
79 | |
80 ;; Shut down emacs and fire it up again. Then "M-x bruce" should put some | |
81 ;; shocking words in the current buffer. | |
82 | |
83 | |
84 ;; Please note that I am not suggesting that you actually use this program | |
85 ;; to add "illegal" words to your email, or any other purpose. First, you | |
86 ;; don't really need a program to do it, and second, it would be illegal | |
87 ;; for me to suggest or advise that you actually break the law. This | |
88 ;; program was written as a demonstration only, and as an act of political | |
89 ;; protest and free expression protected by the First Amendment, or | |
90 ;; whatever is left of it. | |
91 | |
92 | |
93 ;; We now return to the original writeup for spook: | |
94 | |
95 ;; Steve Strassmann <straz@media-lab.media.mit.edu> didn't write the | |
96 ;; program spook, from which this was adapted, and even if he did, he | |
97 ;; really didn't mean for you to use it in an anarchistic way. | |
98 ;; | |
99 ;; To use this: | |
100 ;; Just before sending mail, do M-x spook. | |
101 ;; A number of phrases will be inserted into your buffer, to help | |
102 ;; give your message that extra bit of attractiveness for automated | |
103 ;; keyword scanners. Help defeat the NSA trunk trawler! | |
104 | |
105 ;;; Code: | |
106 | |
107 (require 'cookie1) | |
108 | |
109 ; Variables | |
21363 | 110 (defgroup bruce nil |
111 "Insert phrases selected at random from a file into a buffer." | |
112 :prefix "bruce-" | |
113 :group 'games) | |
20323 | 114 |
21363 | 115 (defcustom bruce-phrases-file "~/bruce.lines" |
42041 | 116 "Keep your favourite phrases here." |
21363 | 117 :type 'file |
118 :group 'bruce) | |
119 | |
120 (defcustom bruce-phrase-default-count 15 | |
121 "Default number of phrases to insert." | |
122 :type 'integer | |
123 :group 'bruce) | |
20323 | 124 |
125 ;;;###autoload | |
126 (defun bruce () | |
127 "Adds that special touch of class to your outgoing mail." | |
128 (interactive) | |
129 (or (file-exists-p bruce-phrases-file) | |
130 (error "You need to create %s" bruce-phrases-file)) | |
131 (cookie-insert bruce-phrases-file | |
132 bruce-phrase-default-count | |
133 "Checking authorization..." | |
134 "Checking authorization...Approved")) | |
135 | |
136 ;;;###autoload | |
137 (defun snarf-bruces () | |
138 "Return a vector containing the lines from `bruce-phrases-file'." | |
139 (or (file-exists-p bruce-phrases-file) | |
140 (error "You need to create %s" bruce-phrases-file)) | |
141 (cookie-snarf bruce-phrases-file | |
142 "Checking authorization..." | |
143 "Checking authorization...Approved")) | |
144 | |
145 ;; Note: the implementation that used to take up most of this file has been | |
146 ;; cleaned up, generalized, gratuitously broken by esr, and now resides in | |
147 ;; cookie1.el. | |
148 | |
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149 (provide 'bruce) |
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52401 | 151 ;;; arch-tag: b83ded51-4ccb-41ef-8bd6-3b521e81dd9b |
20323 | 152 ;;; bruce.el ends here |