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Re: [L-OT] "Late" email (was: The price of music?)

2001-10-29 by Zeek Duff

--- In logic-ot@y..., Joeri Vankeirsbilck <joeri@b...> wrote:
> > > Various posts have arrived in my Inbox extremely erratically
over 
> > the last
> > > few days. Don't know WHAT Yahoo's been up to!! Those posts
pre-dated 
> > others
> > > I had seen which had not made much sense because they were
replies 
> > to posts
> > > I had yet to see. Given the tardiness with which they have got
to me,
> > > please excuse me if this here post is late and by now
irrelevant. If you
> > > consider it way off-topic even for the OT list then just hit
your delete
> > > button forthwith!!!
> >
> > Kool, it appears you've been spotted by the FBI's software called 
> > "Carnivore,"
> > which has been in use for some time examining keywords in emails
and 
> > "delaying"
> > them until they can be read by a human and deemed "fit to pass
on."  
> > Consider
> > yourself marked.  I had this start happening apparently a week or
so 
> > after the
> > 11th, and about 50 emails arrived late, getting here in early
October, 
> > some as
> > much as two weeks old and ALL having some mention of something 
> > political and/or
> > having to do with terrorism.
> 
> 
> Zeek, is this a joke or are you serious?
> 

As serious as I could possibly be.  I'm also about as paranoid as I
was in the '60s when the cops kept hassling me for "suspicion of long
hair."  In fact, I'm  replying online at the website, as I wanted to
be sure this message actually GOT where it was sent.  :\

Regards,
...z

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