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.
Oh, right. If there is anyplace in cyberspace where experts in cowardly harassment by email exist, it is on this list. Get real.
I never claimed to be above a little cowardly harrasment myself, just pointed out that this is the general level at which this mail appeared to be. Nor indeed did I say there was anything wrong with cowardly harrasment, in it`s place.
More likely someone at IRS thought they would stir things up a bit, and is having a bit of fun watching all this. Maybe they even thought they were doing people a favor.
Possibly, the first explanation strikes me as most likely. 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"