Re: On the medium being the message

[Jim McCoy <mccoy@ccwf.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