It certainly appears that the IRS has sent "warnings" out to all of us active in the debate. It appears they used the addresses found in e-mail at Bell's residence, from some of the comments here (especially that other lists besides the Cypherpunks list were involved).
Does anyone here who didn`t recieve a copy of the mail recall if they ever mailed Jim directly, and not through the list? The way I see it there are two possible ways the motherfuckers got the addresses, either they found the lists Jim subscribed to and did "who cypherpunks" etc. to the servers, to get the list of participants, or they used any adresses off the mail jim has recieved in the past, I got a copy of it and I have privately emailed Jim several times so I can`t really say which is more likely. If it is the second I am hereby giving Jim a public dresssing down for not encrypting the filesystem ;-)....
"Mr. Bell, if you confess and plead guilty, you'll receive a one-year prison term. If you don't confess, when we find you guilty you'll receive the maximum term. If you confess but Mr. May _also_ confesses, you'll still receive the maximum term. If neither of you confesses, you'll still be found guilty. So, what'll it be?"
The sending of this email to people Jim has communicated with, if it was a real mail (I haven`t checked before but other people have and have said the headers indicate it passed through several .gov hosts), constitutes cowardly harrasment. Lock and Load. Datacomms Technologies data security Paul Bradley, Paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk Paul@crypto.uk.eu.org, Paul@cryptography.uk.eu.org Http://www.cryptography.home.ml.org/ Email for PGP public key, ID: FC76DA85 "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey"