On 25/1/25 06:31, Roger Price wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Bret Busby wrote:
"X-Message-Flag Supplemental report sent to reaper.nsa.gov. rc=0"
This comes from a customized-hdrs entry in my .pinerc added as a joke by a
friend many years ago. I am a long time pine user, and it has been carried on
unwittingly from one OS release to the next. After all these years, you are the
first to have remarked publicly. No government organisation has tried to
contact me openly.
I hope you were not too frightened, but vigilance is a fine quality.
Roger
Okay...
I have been using pine -> alpine for about 30 years.
I have not been aware of being able to change headers like that - the
extent of my knowledge of implanting things in headers, is setting the
Reply To and BCC fields. I have not yet been able to successfully get
Return Receipt Requests (I have learnt of the 3 R's...) working in
pine/alpine.
My understanding is that such government agencies tend to not contact
their victims openly, but arrive with battering rams and a platoon of
heavily armed soldiers with sub-machine guns with silencers (in
Australia, some years ago, the local equivalent of the CIA demolished
the door to the wrong apartment, in a hotel, in Melbourne, in a training
exercise, but, then, this is the country where a prominent/"eminent"
prime monster was caught in a hotel corridor, not wearing his trousers -
possibly, the same city).
So, after all of that, and, because this is now a separated thread
(hopefully, without a supplemental report ( :) ) ), my reason for
wanting to find what state/country the original message originated, is
that, as a family history researcher, the name Price is the birth family
name of a direct ancestor, from a small island state off the coast of
Australia. Are you from there, perchance?
..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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