Text::Echelon README 16th December 2001 Russell Matbouli This is Text::Echelon. It provides random Echelon "spook words". Also included in this distribution is echelon.pl - a small script that can be used to generate X-Echelon headers for your mail. To use it with mutt, put the following line in your .muttrc: my_hdr `/path/to/echelon.pl` If you know how to set it up for use with other mail clients, please let me know and I shall add your instructions to this distribution. Below is the pod documentation for this module. ----------------------------------------------- NAME Text::Echelon - get random Echelon related words. SYNOPSIS use Text::Echelon; my $te = Text::Echelon->new(); print $te->get(); print $te->getmany($num); #or $te->getmany($num, $delimiter); print $te->makeheader(); print $te->makecustom($pre, $num, $post, $delim); new Creates a new instance of Text::Echelon get Returns one random spook word or phrase as a scalar getmany Takes a number of spook words or phrases to be returned and the delimiter between words as parameters. Returns a scalar string of spookwords. makecustom Takes four parameters - the prefix to use, the number of words or phrases to include, the postfix to use and the delimiter between words. Returns a scalar string. makeheader Creates a header suitable for putting in your outgoing email. The scalar returned is in the format: `X-Echelon: smuggle, CIA, indigo' DESCRIPTION Text::Echelon is a small program that will return Echelon '*spook words*', as per http://www.attrition.org/attrition/keywords.html If you don't know why you might want this, look at: http://www.echelon.wiretapped.net/ http://www.echelonwatch.org/ AVAILABILITY It should be available for download from http://russell.matbouli.org/code/text-echelon/ or from CPAN AUTHOR Russell Matbouli http://russell.matbouli.org/ LICENSE Distributed under GPL v2. See COPYING included with this distibution. SEE ALSO perl(1).