;;; bruce.el --- bruce phrase utility for overloading the Communications -*- no-byte-compile: t -*-;;; Decency Act snoops, if any.;; Copyright (C) 1988, 1993, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004,;; 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.;; Maintainer: FSF;; Keywords: games;; Created: Jan 1997;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option);; any later version.;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the;; GNU General Public License for more details.;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.;;; Commentary:;; This program was written to protest the miss-named "Communications;; Decency Act of 1996. This Act bans "indecent speech", whatever that is,;; from the Internet. For more on the CDA, see Richard Stallman's essay on;; censorship, included in the etc directory of emacs distributions 19.34;; and up. See also http://www.eff.org/blueribbon.html.;; For many years, emacs has included a program called Spook. This program;; adds a series of "keywords" to email just before it goes out. On the;; theory that the NSA monitors people's email, the keywords would be;; picked up by the NSA's snoop computers, causing them to waste time;; reading your meeting schedule notices or other email boring to everyone;; but you and (you hope) the recipient. See below (I left in the original;; writeup when I made this conversion), or the emacs documentation at;; ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/emacs-manual*.;; Bruce is a direct copy of spook, with the word "spook" replaced with;; the word "bruce". Thanks to "esr", whoever he, she or it may be, this;; conversion was an extremely easy piece of editing, suitable for a first;; essay at elisp programming.;; You may think of the name as having been derived from a certain Monty;; Python routine. Or from Lenny Bruce, who opposed censorship in his own;; inimitable way. Bruce does exactly what Spook does: it throws keywords;; into your email messages or other documents.;; However, in order to comply with the CDA as interpreted by Richard;; Stallman (see the essay on censorship), bruce is distributed without a;; data file from which to select words at random. Sorry about that. I;; believe the average user will be able to come up with a few words on;; his or her own. If that is a problem, feel free to ask any American;; teenager, preferably one who attends a government school. Failing;; that, you might write to Mr. Clinton or Ms Reno or their successors and;; ask them for suggestions. Think of it as a public spirited act: the;; time they spend answering you is time not spent persecuting someone;; else. However, do ask them to respond by snail mail, where their;; suggestions would be legal.;; To build the data file, just start a file called bruce.lines in the etc;; directory of your emacs distribution. Note that each phrase or word has;; to be followed by an ascii 0, control-@. See the file spook.lines in;; the etc directory for an example. In emacs, use c-q c-@ to insert the;; ascii 0s.;; Once you have edited up a data file, you have to tell emacs how to find;; the program bruce. Add the following two lines to your .emacs file. Be;; sure to uncomment the second line.;; for bruce mode;; (autoload 'bruce "bruce" "Use the Bruce program to protest the CDA" t);; Shut down emacs and fire it up again. Then "M-x bruce" should put some;; shocking words in the current buffer.;; Please note that I am not suggesting that you actually use this program;; to add "illegal" words to your email, or any other purpose. First, you;; don't really need a program to do it, and second, it would be illegal;; for me to suggest or advise that you actually break the law. This;; program was written as a demonstration only, and as an act of political;; protest and free expression protected by the First Amendment, or;; whatever is left of it.;; We now return to the original writeup for spook:;; Steve Strassmann <straz@media-lab.media.mit.edu> didn't write the;; program spook, from which this was adapted, and even if he did, he;; really didn't mean for you to use it in an anarchistic way.;;;; To use this:;; Just before sending mail, do M-x spook.;; A number of phrases will be inserted into your buffer, to help;; give your message that extra bit of attractiveness for automated;; keyword scanners. Help defeat the NSA trunk trawler!;;; Code:(require 'cookie1); Variables(defgroup bruce nil "Insert phrases selected at random from a file into a buffer." :prefix "bruce-" :group 'games)(defcustom bruce-phrases-file "~/bruce.lines" "Keep your favourite phrases here." :type 'file :group 'bruce)(defcustom bruce-phrase-default-count 15 "Default number of phrases to insert." :type 'integer :group 'bruce);;;###autoload(defun bruce () "Adds that special touch of class to your outgoing mail." (interactive) (or (file-exists-p bruce-phrases-file) (error "You need to create %s" bruce-phrases-file)) (cookie-insert bruce-phrases-file bruce-phrase-default-count "Checking authorization..." "Checking authorization...Approved"));;;###autoload(defun snarf-bruces () "Return a vector containing the lines from `bruce-phrases-file'." (or (file-exists-p bruce-phrases-file) (error "You need to create %s" bruce-phrases-file)) (cookie-snarf bruce-phrases-file "Checking authorization..." "Checking authorization...Approved"));; Note: the implementation that used to take up most of this file has been;; cleaned up, generalized, gratuitously broken by esr, and now resides in;; cookie1.el.(provide 'bruce);;; arch-tag: b83ded51-4ccb-41ef-8bd6-3b521e81dd9b;;; bruce.el ends here