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Zac's Mom
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 4:28 am    Post subject: practicing for election day? Reply with quote

Check out this story from the SacBee's John L. Hughes, Letters Editor ~

http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/10948901p-11866235c.html

nearly all of the "Letters To The Editor" messages received after the debate were sent from machines inside the 'democrats.org' and 'moveon.org" organizations!


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PostPosted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 4:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was the Letters editor for the Raleigh News and Observer several years back and we had the same policy. I could spot a 'letter campaign' with that same 'spidey eye' and wouldn't publish any of them. That was before algore invented the internet... Confused and they all came in via snail mail.

From what I read in Letters' columns I don't think most newspapers are that careful these days. I'm glad to see the SacBee is! Thanks for the link.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 5:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

From the article
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Each e-mail contains information about the route taken from sender to recipient. This information is contained in what is called the header of the e-mail. This header is normally hidden when you read an e-mail.

I started examining the headers of the e-mails. The first couple of letters I checked didn't have anything unusual in the headers. But then I found a letter that had been sent from a machine identified as "democrats.org."

When I searched for all headers containing "democrats.org," I found 47 of the 82 debate letters had been sent from that Web site. (The mail came from six specific machines - 192.168.10.21 through 192.168.10.26.)

Further checking revealed that an additional 22 letters had been generated by moveon.org (machine 64.124.204.39). The number of moveon.org mail swelled to 77 pieces by noon.


A lot of work, but a good catch for them!
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 7:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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When I searched for all headers containing "democrats.org," I found 47 of the 82 debate letters had been sent from that Web site. (The mail came from six specific machines - 192.168.10.21 through 192.168.10.26.)


Sheesh, and they didn't even use tunneling or masquerading for their internal network. Sloppy, very sloppy.
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