CDR: Re: CIA in Oregon, Intelink

[Alex B. Shepardsen]

On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, John Young wrote:

> Mail to mueller at bendnet.com bounced. Rather a 
> bounce message was returned from bendnet.com,
> and surely cloaks delivery of the message.

I tried @bend.com. (bendnet.com is rewritten to bend.com when accessed via
http).

abs at suffy:/home/abs$ telnet mail.bend.com 25
Trying 199.2.205.69...
Connected to mail.bend.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 X1 NT-ESMTP Server mail.bend.com (IMail 6.04 64477-1)
expn mueller
550 list not found
vrfy mueller
252 Cannot VRFY user
quit
221 Goodbye
Connection closed by foreign host.
abs at suffy:/home/abs$


mueller doesn't exist as one of the webpages on
http://www.bend.com/bendnet/users.php either.
 
> And the cc to dan at istac.gov would not even leave this
> mailer. So it seemed. But the window glass shivered.

What's the whois server for .gov? I could have sworn it was
whois.nic.gov... but that appears to be nonexistant at the moment.

 
> Spookery is awesome.
 
Isn't it?