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   From: malc@gelt.org   
      
   On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 15:38:34 -0700, "Matt"    
   wrote:   
      
   >> They weren't doing it to "everyone in line", just to those singled out   
   >> for special attention (they'd have "SSSS" on their boarding cards).   
      
   >Fred's post said they were doing it to everyone....which I've never heard   
   >of, so I can only assume there was some kind of special circumstance.   
      
   Actually, the exact quote was:   
      
   'We were informed that the entire line were were in was subject to   
   "additional security" checking.'   
      
   Which is not the same as "everyone".   
      
   I.e. Fred was in the "special attention" line.   
      
   (At the Alaska checkpoint at SFO, that is the rightmost line, at SEA   
   it's the leftmost.  At the "non-UA" checkpoint at DEN it's the   
   leftmost.  Etc.  The guard checking boarding passes/ID directs those   
   with "SSSS" on their passes to that line, and everyone in that line   
   gets the additional security.  It's happened to me once, when I bought   
   a last-minute -- literally -- ticket, which is vaguely amusing given   
   the fact that if only various bits of the government talked, they'd   
   know that if I went nuts, my doing nasty things on commercial airlines   
   would  the least of their problems...)   
      
   >Matt   
      
   Malc.   
      
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