Time: Tue Oct 29 23:55:31 1996
To: Nancy Lord <defense@mindspring.com>
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: Re: Tapper or Hacker?
Cc: 
Bcc: 

At 12:11 AM 10/30/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear Paul,
>        I got a message today from your primenet
>guy, Neal Kelsey.  He didn't give your name
>but I'm guessing it's you.  Is this still going on?

It was this afternoon.
I am routinely mailing
bounced email to you.
Expect 3-4 days delay
for snail mail, first
class.

/s/ Paul Mitchell


>        It's starting to really worry me, because it's
>only is happening to us.  I started to post Neal
>that it might be a government intercept malfunction
>or a hacker, but got stuck on explaining what it
>was we both do for a living that makes us targets.
>Decided it was best to leave it out, or he will think
>I am a paranoid nut case or that we're both in some
>illegal racket.  Do you know this guy?

Not very well, but I always
express immediate appreciation
to all the tech support people
for everything they have done
for me in the past, and Neal
knows that I am sincere and
legitimate with my questions
to his staff.  Judging from the
almost instant responses I have
gotten from him, he is very
concerned about keeping people
on-line.  I do on occasion 
forward things to him, just to
give him a taste of what it is
we do.  So, he knows, but not a
lot.  My experience has been that
if people are spooked, they fall
silent.  Neal takes his job
very seriously, and he is very
direct with customers who ask
for help.  So, consider him an
ally in this work.  The whole
networking industry is furious at
Congress for repeatedly trying to
throttle the Internet.  It may be
that we are in for another round
of struggle with Mark Twain's
idiots -- the House of Representatives.

/s/ Paul Mitchell


>        We had a lot of excitement here this afternoon.
>The cable suddenly cut & while I was calling, Don
>(home early, remember?) stuck his head out and saw
>a fire in one of the large transformers down the block.
>They confirmed that's what it was and we got their
>before the fire trucks.  There were three of them, a
>couple of cop cars, power company guys, and para-
>medics (no one was injured).  The whole neighbor-
>hood was out. 
>        Then like 15 of these guys, in suits with breathing
>apparatus got inside the fence and sprayed this yellow
>stuff on it.  It took about 20 minutes to get the fire out,
>and the smoke even longer than that.  The whole block
>smelled like a chemical explosion.  I went home to 
>cut off the computer because I thought they'd cut the
>electricity (started to post you to save all my posts in 
>case we got blamed, then realized I was paranoid), 
>and when I went back the para-medics made me get 
>Don back from right by it.  He had a good seat but was 
>in danger of chemical inhalation.   Nobody knew what it was yet.

You should know that transformers
have PCB's in them.  You should have
been moving upwind at 90 mph, if that
were the case.  Get your blood tested
asap, ok?  Do it for me.

/s/ Paul Mitchell


>        Was not on line again til now, and got the
>post from Neal.   I did get 2 posts from you, A Worthy
>Proposal and Research Point.  Agree on Klinton.  Him,
>a republican congress, and a large showing for Harry
>will do a whole lot more for freedom than Dole.   He
>brings people out.  Nobody was a better recruiter for
>legalization than Bill Bennett.
>        But if you sent anything else, I didn't get it.  Hope
>I didn't miss anything important, you know I like hearing
>from you.

I had to resort to snail mail.
I have no other way of getting
stuff to you that kept bouncing.
I strongly suspect intercepts.
Can you change ISP's?

    
>        Please say a prayer for Bobby.  It's all up to him
>now, and God.  
>        Missing you. 

You are sweet.  I do need it right now.
I am sinking under the weight of these
clients who use vicious lies to rationalize
their failure to pay for my services, all
the while they were so pleased and willing
to tell others the same about the high
quality of my work.  My rational mind tells
me I am approaching a drop point, and the
flak is intensifying.  How did those 
Allied bomber crews ever get through?
"Pilot to bombardier:  open bomb bay doors."
I must now walk in their tall shadows.
It is no easy task, as you know.

/s/ Paul Mitchell

>Good night.

And so to You also,
in the springtime of flowers,
in the autumn of our lives,
thru the winter of discontent,
unto the summer of pure light,
we pray the Spirit Most Holy,
will guide Us through the fog,
and bring the rest along to be
together, forever joy,
together forever, Love,
resurrected perfection and
Peace.  Amen.

/s/ Paul Mitchell


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