From: "James A. Tunnicliffe" <Tunny@inference.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 08:27:37 -0700 (PDT)
To: "'Jonathan Litt'" <littlitt@MIT.EDU>
Subject: RE: USPS electronic postmark
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>Jonathan Litt[SMTP:littlitt@MIT.EDU] wrote:
>Today I was at the Internet Expo in Boston and I sent myself a
>postmarked email from the USPS booth. It is enclosed below for all to
>scrutinize.
>[...snip...]
>I will also paraphrase something that was said by one of the people at
>the booth:
>
>  "We always send the message itself as an attachment. The message that
>  you see at first shows the postmark, and warns you not to open the
>  attachment if you are not the intended recipient. Just as with normal
>  mail, it is a federal crime to double click on the attachment to view
>  the contents of the message if the message is not for you."
>[...snip...]
>As stated above, here is the message in its entirety, exactly as it
>arrived in my mailbox. Below that is the base64 decoded for your
>convenience.

(Official USPS warning:)
>[...]If you are not the intended
>recipient, you are hereby notified that any viewing, dissemination,
>distribution, or copying of this message is prohibited.
>
>Only littlitt@mit.edu may view the enclosed message.
[...unauthorized federally-protected not-for-your-eyes message
deleted...]

>Aaaugghh!  I accidentally viewed the message!  Now I'm a federal criminal! (A
>veritable Public Enemy, I guess, given my additional crime of wearing my RSA
>"munitions" shirt in full view of people who may well be dangerous foreign
>nationals.)
>
>If I go down for this, I'm taking you with me, Jonathan.
>
>Tunny
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