OT: Obfuscation (was Re: Osama'S code?)

["Joel Rees" <joel@alpsgiken.gr.jp>]

Ash responded:

> While the misc mailing list isn't the best place for such a joke there
> is nothing racist about it. It could only be a racist statment if the
> statment had something about an ethinic group, sex, or religious
> prefrence which it clearly does not. Also note that you do not own the
> misc mailing list and it is up to th good folks at OpenBSD to filter the
> mail or not (and what to filter if they do).

And I thought isk was just joking around, too?

Although, if I had to send secret messages to someone, burying them in what
_looks like_ Asian language spam sent to a moderate-sized English
language technical mailing list/newsgroup would be well worth considering.

And the middle east is not the only part of Asia where terrorists are
operating. Topic came up on one of the talk shows my wife listens to, things
that one usually thinks of as yellow press, about North Korean connections
to Al Qaeda.

Barry's comments are not really as much of a joke as he may have intended.

> isk wrote:
>
> >Please keep your racist remarks/jokes out of my openbsd-misc folder.
> >
> >-Ibrahim Khalifa
> >
> >On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Barry Shaw wrote:
> >
> >: Is this stuff appropriate for the misc list or could it be instructions
for
> >: what building to blow up?