What color are anthrax spores anyway?

[Declan McCullagh]

Hint: This isn't the style AP uses.

The biggest problem would-be hoaxers have is crafting articles in the
appropriate style -- very, very few can pull it off.

-Declan



On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 11:52:12PM -0500, measl at mfn.org wrote:
> Just for the record, I just received a note stating this may in fact be a
> hoax...
> 
> On Sun, 7 Oct 2001 measl at mfn.org wrote:
> 
> > Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 23:34:10 -0500 (CDT)
> > From: measl at mfn.org
> > Reply-To: cypherpunks at einstein.ssz.com
> > To: cypherpunks at einstein.ssz.com
> > Subject: CDR: What color are anthrax spores anyway?
> > 
> > 
> > Hialeah, Florida-AP -- Florida officials say five people have been
> > hospitalized after opening envelopes containing a mysterious white
> > powder. Officials with the Hialeah Fire-Rescue Department in suburban
> > Miami say one person at an apartment was taken to the hospital today after
> > opening a manila envelope. Yesterday, four people at a house 20 blocks
> > away were exposed to an apparently identical powder mailed in a manila
> > envelope. They contacted authorities today and were hospitalized. Three of
> > them are being treated for low-grade fevers. The F-B-I and emergency
> > officials have quarantined the home, taking the mail as well as the
> > clothing the occupants were wearing at the time. Preliminary testing of
> > the substance could be completed today. 
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Yours, 
> J.A. Terranson
> sysadmin at mfn.org
> 
> If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they
> should give serious consideration towards setting a better example:
> Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of
> unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in
> the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and 
> elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire
> populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate...
> This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States
> as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
> 
> The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers,
> associates, or others.  Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of
> those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the
> first place...
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