[612] in Cypherpunks
Questionable instances?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Wed May 26 10:35:38 1993
To: cypherpunks@toad.com, meyer@wixer.cactus.org, operator@uunet.uu.net
From: fergp@sytex.com (Paul Ferguson)
Date: Wed, 26 May 93 09:49:07 EDT
On Wed, 26 May 93 2:18:52 CDT,
Peter Meyer <uunet!cactus.org!wixer!wixer.bga.com!meyer> wrote -
> My previous message to cypherpunks, the one which had
> subject heading "AT&T" and which began:
> "I recently switched my long distance carrier from AT&T to another,
> since they bribed me to do so with an offer of $35."
> seemed to be posted OK (it apparently came back to me as expected)
> but I also got this funny bounce message:
>From attmail.com!uucp@cactus.org Tue May 25 23:37:59 1993
[ remainder of header deleted ]
> This seems odd. What's going on? Do all messages with "AT&T" in the
> subject line get siphoned off somewhere for review? Did this one
> generate a bounce message because the account of Bryan Petty, AT&T spy,
> wasn't receiving tonight? OK, I'm just paranoid. (Paranoia - that's
> your state of mind when you finally realize what's really going on.)
At least I'm not the only one who has recently noticed this. I had to
do a double take when I received not only my original post on UUNet
questions from cypherpunks-request@taod.com, but I received a second
copy with this header:
From uunet!attmail.com!uucp Wed May 26 03:18:15 1993
Return-Path: <uunet!attmail.com!uucp>
Received: from uunet by sytex.com with uucp
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Date: 25 May 93 20:11:10 GMT
To: sytex.com!fergp
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Subject: Just the facts, ma'am.
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To: internet!sytex.com!jim
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Now, this makes me wonder what the hell is going on. Several scenarios
race through my mind, but then again, I'm a born skeptic and affirmed
cynic. If this kind of stuff keeps happening (along with
disappearances of my private, encrypted message traffic), I'm
considering asking some of crypto buddies over at GMU for a dial-in
account instead. Of course, I'd like to get to the bottom of this
first ...
Any explanations?
cc: jim@sytex.com
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