On 25/1/25 11:34, Will Mengarini wrote:
On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 06:12:30AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
In viewing the full header of the above message (to try to find
which country or timezone, is the origin of the message sent
to the mailing list, for an extraneous reason), I observed a
weird thing, that makes me wonder whether the mailing list and/or
Debian, is, as is apparently shown, connected to the infamous NSA.
"X-Message-Flag Supplemental report sent to reaper.nsa.gov. rc=0"
Could someone please clarify the apparent
involvement of the NSA in this mailing list?
Or, is the mailing list simply under surveillance by the NSA?
..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
* Andrew M.A. Cater <amaca...@einval.com> [25-01/24=Fri 22:31 +0000]:
X-Message-Flag
The header field "X-Message-Flag" is used by Microsoft
mail clients and can contain a custom text. Mail clients from
Microsoft (such as Outlook) use this header field when converting
Message objects used by Microsoft products to MIME messages.
I suspect it's coincidental / benign or a
joke, given that it's a Microsoft-ism here.
(Or maybe that's what they want you to think ;-) )
With every good wish, as ever,
Andrew Cater
(amaca...@debian.org)
Air quality in Seattle is monitored by volunteers who buy and
operate monitoring stations, and publish their observations
every hour. They can name their stations whatever they want, so
usually pick nearby street names or other geographic features.
One monitoring station is named "FBI Surveillance Van".
That group of people (organisation?) seems similar to the Weather
Underground (wunderground.com), where people buy, set up, and operate,
their own small local weather stations, and provide localised, free
access (here in Australia, the government department associated with
weather monitoring and forecasting, severely restricts public online
access ("We are a government department - our role is to not provide
service to the public") including restricting public access to emergency
weather warnings) to local weather observations and forecasting.
Is the FBI Surveillance Van, black, with the staffing by white men
wearing black suits and black sunglasses? I presume that the web site
for that one, is reverse mode - white text on a black background...
..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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