re turkish government agents on usenet i don t know anything about this particular case but other governments have been known to follow events on the usenet for example after tienanmien square in beijing the chinese government began monitoring cyberspace as the former director of peacenet i am aware of many incidents of local state national and international authorities monitoring usenet and other conferences such as those on the institute for global communications but what s the big deal you shouldn t advocate illegal acts in this medium in any case if you are concerned about being monitored you should use encyrption software available in igc s micro conference i know for a fact that human rights activists in the balkan mideast area use encryption software to send out their reports to international organizations such message can be decoded however by large computers consuming much cpu time which probably the turkish government doesn t have access to howard frederick university of california irvine department of politics and society
