This looks completely, totally, and insanely bogus, but I need some kind of verification for this bizarre little piece of mail that somehow ended up in my mailbox.
If you really need verification, there's no one with the last name of "Dereksen" on MIT's directory (which lists students and staff; "finger dereksen@mit.edu"), and there's certainly no departments at MIT called the "Main branch" or "Interconnected Network Maintenance staff".
At least this one is funny. I particular like the beginning: "It's that time again!"
And BTW, since they told you to disconnect your machine from the net, *where* exactly are they gonna find "lost e-mail" ? Lying around *clogging* telephone wires and optical fibers? :-) I can just picture the usual disclaimer: WARNING: FIRE HAZARD! if you let old, undiscarded e-mail accumulate in your modem/computer it might catch fire! E-paper is just as flamable as the regular one... ROTFL! **** NEW PGP 2.6.2 KEY ********* This key is actually suspended, as of Feb, 16 1996, was never distributed, and might be subject to deletion. Sorry for the trouble my mis-management might have caused. 2048 bits Key ID:24201BA1 1996/02/13 Jean-Francois Avon <jf_avon@citenet.net> Key fingerprint = 23 B6 24 31 86 67 FB 35 C7 A7 AF 12 A1 61 E9 3D **** OLD KEY: DO NOT USE ANYMORE UNLESS FOR VERIFYING SIGNATURES **** 1024 bits Key ID:57214AED 1995/10/04 Jean-Francois Avon <jf_avon@citenet.net> Key fingerprint = 84 96 76 AE EB 7C AB 15 88 47 87 B0 18 31 74 9F