<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 7, 2018, at 6:01 AM, David Bulog <<a href="mailto:d2ba@xtra.co.nz" class="">d2ba@xtra.co.nz</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="">John Titor </div><div class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor</a></div><div class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Titor claimed to be an American soldier from 2036, based in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa,_Florida" title="Tampa, Florida" class="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Tampa, Florida</a><span class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. He was assigned to a governmental time-travel project, and sent back to 1975 to retrieve an </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5100" title="IBM 5100" class="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">IBM 5100</a><span class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> computer which he said was needed to </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debug" class="mw-redirect" title="Debug" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">debug</a><span class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">various legacy computer programs in 2036</span></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Back around '97 or '98, shortly after I obtained Internet access and joined SDIY, I received a spam email that started like this:</div><div><br class=""></div><div>"Hi! You don't know me but you will in the future. I'm emailing you from a cybercafe in the year [some time ten or fifteen years from then]"</div><div><br class=""></div><div>The message went on from there at some length and was very well written. I can't remember what the pitch was or if it was just an elaborate joke. My email archive goes back that far but I can't find it anywhere. Hands down the best spam EVER. A+ for imagination and execution.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>I'm still waiting to meet him. Or her. Or it.</div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Terry Bowman, KA4HJH</div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">"The Mac Doctor"</div></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"By the end of Chuck Statler's 'Rock Videos' of Devo we agreed that even if Devo did not take the stage it was still the best concert any of us had ever attended." —Kim Thayil (Soundgarden), 1995</div></div></div></div></div></div>
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