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 Received: by wixer (5.65/1.35) id AA10857; Wed, 26 May 93 00:16:57 -0500 From: attmail.com!uucp@cactus.org Received: from att.att.com by cactus.org (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA17609; Tue, 25 May 93 23:37:59 CDT Message-Id: <9305260437.AA17609@cactus.org> Date: 25 May 93 20:30:47 GMT To: wixer!wixer.bga.com!meyer@cactus.org Report-Version: 2 Received: by /C=US/AD=ATTMAIL;Wed May 26 04:28:34 -0000 1993 Received: by /C=US/AD=ATTMAIL/PD=DCA;Tue May 25 20:30:47 GMT 1993 Confirming-Mts-Message-Id: Confirming-Ua-Content-Id: <ternet1460427530> Original-Date: Wed May 26 04:27:53 GMT 1993 Not-Delivered-To: mhs!dca/G=bryan/S=petty/OU=dcaicc due to 01 Invalid Address Specification Content-Type: message Status: RO
Message-Version: 2 From: internet!cactus.org!wixer!wixer.bga.com!meyer/S=meyer UA-Content-ID: <internet1460427530> End-of-Header: EMail-Version: 2 Subject: AT&T UA-Message-ID: <internet1460427530> To: internet!cactus.org!wixer!wixer.bga.com!internet!toad.com!cypherpunks End-of-Protocol: Content-Type: text Content-Length: 755
I recently switched my long distance carrier from AT&T to another, since they bribed me to do so with an offer of $35.
[Rest of message deleted - PM.]
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.)