* Spook: Distracting NSA. How to distract the NSA's attention.
* Fortune:: `Fortune' items in signatures.
* Footnotes: Mail Footnotes. Making footnotes in messages.
-* Mail Methods:: Using alternative mail-composition methods.
+* Methods: Mail Methods. Using alternative mail-composition methods.
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@node Mail Format
mail message. The keywords are chosen from a list of words that suggest
you are discussing something subversive.
- The idea behind this feature is the suspicion that the NSA snoops on
+ The idea behind this feature is the suspicion that the
+NSA@footnote{The US National Security Agency.} snoops on
all electronic mail messages that contain keywords suggesting they might
find them interesting. (The NSA says they don't, but that's what they
@emph{would} say.) The idea is that if lots of people add suspicious
@findex fortune-from-region
@cindex signatures, mail/news
@cindex fortune cookies
-The Fortune package uses the @code{fortune} program to create signatures
-for mail or network news messages. (@code{fortune} prints a
-random---with luck, interesting---adage, originally inspired by `fortune
-cookie' messages.) It also allows you automatically to cut regions to a
-Fortune file with @kbd{M-x fortune-from-region} and compile your own
-Fortune database. To generate signatures, add
-@code{fortune-to-signature} to @code{mail-setup-hook} and/or
-@code{message-setup-hook} as appropriate.
+You can use the @code{fortune} program to create signatures for mail or
+network news messages. (@code{fortune} prints a random---with luck,
+interesting---adage, originally inspired by `fortune cookie' messages.)
+To generate signatures, add @code{fortune-to-signature} to
+@code{mail-setup-hook} and/or @code{message-setup-hook} as appropriate.
+You can automatically cut regions to a Fortune file with @kbd{M-x
+fortune-from-region} and compile your own Fortune database.
@node Mail Footnotes
@section Making Footnotes