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Re: IRS sending warning notes, violating ECPA?
> > The sending of this email to people Jim has communicated with, if it was
> > a real mail (I haven`t checked before but other people have and have said
> > the headers indicate it passed through several .gov hosts), constitutes
> > cowardly harrasment.
>
> Oh, right. If there is anyplace in cyberspace where experts in
> cowardly harassment by email exist, it is on this list. Get real.
I never claimed to be above a little cowardly harrasment myself, just
pointed out that this is the general level at which this mail appeared to
be. Nor indeed did I say there was anything wrong with cowardly
harrasment, in it`s place.
> More likely someone at IRS thought they would stir things up a bit,
> and is having a bit of fun watching all this. Maybe they even
> thought they were doing people a favor.
Possibly, the first explanation strikes me as most likely.
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