From mccoy at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu Tue Jul 6 18:20:03 1993 From: mccoy at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Jim McCoy) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 93 18:20:03 PDT Subject: On the medium being the message In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <199307070119.AA23872@tigger.cc.utexas.edu> > [...] This set off a whole train of thought on > message concealibility, like hiding messages in, say, the order of headers > in a posting, or the "Reply-To:" header, or even the words in subsequent > postings to a newsgroup. Who would ever think to look at, say, the third > word in every posting Tim makes to alt.whatever newsgroup? Or in the "Date:" > field, or in the "Message-ID:" field, or ... or ... or ... Not much bandwidth in that medium there... Things like gif/jpeg images and sound files have a ton of semi-random bits in them that you can fool around with without anyone noticing much, but plain text in news headers and postings just doesn;t leave one with much room for putting in a message. At least not without being blanently obvious... jim