Tried emailing direct but bounced so apologize to the list for the OT content :) You don't happen to have the url do you? Think it would make an amusing read. -Peter

-----Original Message----- From: Major Variola (ret) [mailto:mv@cdc.gov] Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 18:37 To: cypherpunks@lne.com Subject: Sending bricks through the mail

At 09:37 PM 11/2/02 -0800, Tim May wrote:

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When I was at Intel we sent our designs for microprocessors to European

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branches and/or partners. One set of designs sent to MATRA/Harris, a partner in the 80C86, was stolen in transit. (The box of tapes arrived in Paris, but the tapes had been replaced by the suitable weight of bricks.)

There exists a website by someone who enjoyed sending unusual things through the US mail. He once sent a brick, with proper postage, no envelope.

The brick *eventually* arrived at its destination, sort of, but had been broken by the DEA according to the PO's paperwork.