From: owner-skunk-works-digest@netwrx1.com (skunk-works-digest) To: skunk-works-digest@netwrx1.com Subject: skunk-works-digest V7 #65 Reply-To: skunk-works@netwrx1.com Sender: owner-skunk-works-digest@netwrx1.com Errors-To: owner-skunk-works-digest@netwrx1.com Precedence: bulk skunk-works-digest Saturday, September 19 1998 Volume 07 : Number 065 Index of this digest by subject: *************************************************** Re: FWD: CIA'S UFO EXPLANATION IS PREPOSTEROUS Re:Spam must die/ What about DC-X? Re: RE: Your Product SPAM Fight Back [was Re: Your Product] U-2 Info Release Re: Air Farce Re:Spam must die/ What about DC-X? RE: Your Product Navy VTOL transport Re: Spam must die Re: Spam must die Re: Spam must die [none] *************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 14:23:21 -0700 From: patrick Subject: Re: FWD: CIA'S UFO EXPLANATION IS PREPOSTEROUS At 11:36 AM 9/18/98 -0700, you wrote: >Maccabee's explanations and statistics leave me debunked, skeptical, and >skunked. The revelation of this facet of CIA/KGB Cold War propaganda and >disinformation may well account for many UFO reports but not all. Did the >CIA and now recently the KGB through the TNT cable tv "documentary" >[The SECRET KGB UFO Files]* release the unvarnished truth? >*Next showing on TNT - 22 September, Tuesday, at midnight. > >Terry >[a skeptical fortean] > >---------------------------- >CIA'S UFO EXPLANATION IS PREPOSTEROUS >by Bruce Maccabee > Name two things that are forbidden topics on this newslist........UFO's and Spam!!! Terry please take all of your UFO posts to the proper newslists. If these are as interesting as they appear, then there are many people there that can benefit from your posting this to their newslist. thanks, patrick cullumber ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 14:30:03 -0700 From: Dave Cox Subject: Re:Spam must die/ What about DC-X? On 18 Sep 98 at 14:11, M. Studer wrote: >Hey All, > > Just from personal and bitter experience, I advise NOT replying at >all to the spammer. At the least it will bounce off of a bogus >account and at the worst it will just confirm that this is a real >address and thus encourage more crap. The best you can do is to >complain to the ISP where it came from. Actually, the worst that can happen is that YOUR email address ends up as the reply-to address on the next spam they send out. > On a (slightly) more on topic thread, what's going on with the >DC-X? I saw the video of it taking off and landing but I've heard >little since. On it's last flight, one landing leg failed to deploy because a hydraulic hose wasn't connected. It toppled over and exploded after landing. The program's been dead since then. - --dave ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 23:48:14 From: win@writer.win-uk.net (David) Subject: Re: RE: Your Product Patrick wrote: >I wasn't real concerned getting the original spam in my email box. I am >more concerned about the 8 complaints I had to read about. We all got it. >Couuld we please just drop it???? It hurts to say this to you Patrick, but to quote the great bard - Meatloaf, (which I don't do on anything like a regular basis)..You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth :) Reaching for my air guitar..black SAP of course ! D ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 16:06:32 -0700 From: "Terry W. Colvin" Subject: SPAM Fight Back [was Re: Your Product] SPAM = scientifically produced animal matter - -------------------------- See below. Send copies of spam mail to the FTC at: uce@ftc.gov, sometimes they'll get back at the spammers. I received one a couple days ago, and just got another one this morning, just below: "From: specialinfo4u@usa.net Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 18:53:13 +0700 (ICT) To: specialinfo4u@usa.net Subject: PERSONAL NOTICE HI. I APOLOGIZE FOR THIS INTRUSION , BUT YOU MAY THANK ME FOR THIS . COULD YOU USE AN EXTRA $ 25,000 NEXT WEEK ? THEN GIVE ME ONE MINUTE OF YOUR TIME... IT MIGHT BE WORTH A MILLION DOLLARS Dear Friend, My name is David Ross and I need YOU." Screw'em both, and don't ever reply, just delete. Mac FOR RELEASE: JULY 14, 1998 ------------------------------------ FTC Unveils "Dirty Dozen Spam Scams" The Federal Trade Commission today released a list of the 12 most common scams found in unsolicited commercial e-mail -- spam. The list was culled from a sampling of more than 250,000 junk e-mail messages that consumers have forwarded to a special FTC mailbox (uce@ftc.gov) set up to collect spam. "The Dirty Dozen list of junk e-mail is a tip-off to a rip-off," said Jodie Bernstein, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. "Spam is a problem for practically everyone with a computer," Bernstein said. "It’s annoying, it slows down the e-mail system and a lot of it is fraudulent," she said. "We have an e-mail box where consumers can send unwanted, unsolicited e- mail. We’re receiving more than 1,000 complaints a day." Bernstein said the 12 most common types of spam scams include: * Business Opportunity Scams -- Most of these scams promise a lot of income for a small investment of time and money. Some are actually old fashioned pyramid schemes camouflaged to look like something else. "Consumers should be careful of money-making schemes that sound too good to be true," said Bernstein. "They usually are." * Making Money By Sending Bulk E-Mailings -- These schemes claim that you can make money sending your own solicitations via bulk e-mail. They offer to sell you lists of e-mail addresses or software to allow you to make the mailings. What they don’t mention is that the lists are of poor quality; sending bulk e-mail violates the terms of service of most Internet service providers; virtually no legitimate businesses engage in bulk e-mailings; and several states have laws regulating the sending of bulk e-mail. * Chain Letters -- These electronic versions of the old fashioned chain letters usually arrive with claims like, "You are about to make $50,000 in less than 90 days!" "But you don’t," said Bernstein, "and these electronic chain letters are every bit as illegal as the old fashioned paper versions." * Work-At-Home Schemes -- E-mail messages offer the chance to earn money in the comfort of your own home. Two popular versions pitch envelope stuffing and craft assembly. But nobody will really pay you for stuffing envelopes and craft assembly promoters usually refuse to buy the crafts claiming the work does not meet their "quality standards." * Health And Diet Scams -- These offer "scientific breakthroughs," "miraculous cures," "exclusive products," "secret formulas," and "ancient ingredients." Some come with testimonials from "cured" consumers or endorsements from "famous medical experts" no one’s ever heard of. "These bogus cure-alls are just electronic snake oil," said Bernstein. * Easy Money -- Offers such as "Learn how to make $4,000 in one day," or "Make unlimited profits exchanging money on world currency markets," appeal to the desire to "Get-Rich-Quick." "If making money was that easy, we’d all be millionaires," Bernstein said. * Get Something Free -- The lure of valuable, free items -- like computers or long- distance phone cards -- gets consumers to pay membership fees to sign up with these scams. After they pay the fee, consumers learn that they don’t qualify for the "free" gift until they recruit other "members." "These scams are just low down, high tech pyramid schemes," Bernstein said. * Investment Opportunities -- These scams may tout outrageously high rates of return with no risk. Glib, resourceful promoters suggest they have high-level financial connections; that they’re privy to inside information; or that they guarantee the investment. To close the deal, they may serve up phony statistics, misrepresent the significance of a current event or stress the unique quality of their offering. But they are not unique. They’re just like the other scams. * Cable Descrambler Kits -- For a small initial investment you can buy a cable descrambler kit so you can receive cable without paying the subscription fees. "There are two small problems with these schemes," Bernstein said. "The kits usually don’t work and stealing cable service is illegal." * Guaranteed Loans or Credit, On Easy Terms -- Some offer home-equity loans, even if you don’t have any equity in your home. Others offer guaranteed, unsecured credit cards, regardless of your credit history. The "loans" turn out to be lists of lending institutions and the credit cards never arrive. * Credit Repair Scams -- These scams target consumers with poor credit records. For an up-front fee, they offer to clear up a bad credit record -- for a fee -- or give you a completely clean credit slate by showing you how to get an Employer Identification Number. "No one can erase a bad credit record if it’s accurate and using an Employer Identification Number to set up a new credit identity is against the law," Bernstein said. * Vacation Prize Promotions -- Like their snail mail counterparts, these e-mail "Prize Promotions" tell consumers they’ve been selected to receive a "luxury" vacation at a bargain-basement price. But the accommodations aren’t deluxe and upgrades are expensive. ------------------------------------ Copies of the FTC's Consumer Alert, "FTC Names Its Dirty Dozen: 12 Scams Most Likely to Arrive Via Bulk E-mail" and the FTC's Facts for Consumer's brochure about unsolicited commercial e-mail, "Trouble @ the In-Box," as well as a variety of other consumer education publications -- including publications on advance fee loans, credit repair, virtual health "treatments," pyramid schemes and investment scams -- are available on the FTC's web site at http://www.ftc.gov (no period) and also from the FTC’s Consumer Response Center, Room 130, 6th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20580; 202-FTC-HELP (202-382-4357); TDD for the hearing impaired 202-326-2502. To find out the latest news as it is announced, call the FTC NewsPhone recording at 202-326- 2710. MEDIA CONTACT: Claudia Bourne Farrell, Office of Public Affairs 202-326-2181 STAFF CONTACT: John Rothchild or Eileen Harrington, Bureau of Consumer Protection 202-326-3307 or 202-326-3127 (spamrl) I've read These signs Since just a kid Now that I shave I'm glad I did Burma-Shave 1948 - ------------------- Sam Kaltsidis wrote: > > > On Fri, 18 Sep 1998 05:40:18, you wrote: > > > > > > > > LET US DO YOUR BULK E-MAIL ADVERTISING!!! > > How did THAT ^^^^^ get here!!....Good question......seens that SOMEONE > > on this list is not subscribed as whom they appear to be. I'll try > > calling the # listed at the bottom of the message since the headers > > have all been faked to look like it came from > > owner-skunk-works@netwrx1.com > > > > A suggestion might be for us ALL to give the # a call and express our > > displeasure.....numbers speak volumes to these type of people. > > > > And that number again.... > > This really ticks me off. They have no right to send us this crap, and they > CANNOT require us to call THEM long distance to get ourselves removed from their > damn list. This is B.S. > > I thought this kind of abuse was illegal... > > George: Do you still have your mail logs??? Maybe you can bust these "fine" > people. > > > > > To have yourname@domain removed, call 904-771-9410. We > > can only remove usersname@domain, not an entire domain. > > Sender does not accept registered mail. > > Sender: GWH Services > > 950-23 Blanding Boulevard, Suite 113 > > Orange Park, Florida 32065 > > > > Very sorry for the inconvienience, > > > > I apologize for the angry outburst. > > Sam (I HATE SPAM) Kaltsidis. > > > > > ===[George R. Kasica]=== +1 414 541 8579 > > Skunk-Works ListOwner +1 800 816 2568 FAX > > http://www.netwrx1.com West Allis, WI USA > > ICQ #12862186 > > > > Digest Issues at: http://www.netwrx1.com/skunk-works > > - -- Terry W. Colvin, Sierra Vista, Arizona (USA) < fortean@primenet.com > Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/8832 Sites: Fortean Times * Northwest Mysteries * Mystic's Cyberpage * U.S. Message Text Formatting (USMTF) Program - ------------ Member: Thailand-Laos-Cambodia Brotherhood (TLCB) Mailing List TLCB Web Site: http://www.seacoast.com/~jsweet/brotherh/index.html Southeast Asia (SEA) service: Vietnam - Theater Telecommunications Center/HHC, 1st Aviation Brigade (Jan 71 - Aug 72) Thailand/Laos - Telecommunications Center/U.S. Army Support Thailand (USARSUPTHAI), Camp Samae San (Jan 73 - Aug 73) - Special Security/Strategic Communications - Thailand (STRATCOM - Thailand), Phu Mu (Pig Mountain) Signal Site (Aug 73 - Jan 74) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 23:41:50 GMT From: shocktm@his.com (Andrew T. Patton) Subject: U-2 Info Release Here are some excerpts from the Washington Post on the CIA releasing information on the U-2. I am looking forward to the report. The U-2 Flies Out of Spycraft's Shadows By Vernon Loeb Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, September 18, 1998; Page A3 Sue Powers craned her neck and pointed to the sky like a child when the U-2 flew over the National War College yesterday at noon. She hadn't seen one of the long-winged birds in the air for years, and the roar of the jet triggered a wash of memory. ... Mother and son had come as honored guests to a one-day CIA symposium on the agency's first and most celebrated foray into high-altitude photographic reconnaissance, the U-2, a spy plane steeped in legend and shrouded in secrecy until May 1, 1960. ... The CIA used the occasion of yesterday's conference to release for the first time its once-secret internal history of the development and use of the plane during its first 20 years, including a previously classified account of the Powers downing on the last of 24 covert reconnaissance missions flown over the Soviet Union. As the 332-page history attests, the incident did not ground the U-2, which went on to gather critical photographic intelligence during every major military confrontation the nation has faced since then. U-2s photographed missile sites during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and troop movements during the Vietnam War. During the Persian Gulf War, U-2s provided 30 percent of all in-theater intelligence and 90 percent of all targeting intelligence. ... The names of 45 pilots and crew members who died working on the U-2 program were then read aloud for the first time in public, echoing across the parade ground. Family members, finally recognized for the losses they suffered, received medallions before the Air Force band played the service's anthem. - -- Andrew T. Patton WWW: http://www.his.com/~shocktm =46airfax, VA, USA E-Mail: shocktm@his.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 19:29:01 -0700 From: G&G Subject: Re: Air Farce betnal@ns.net wrote: > Art "I never had sex with that airplane" Hanley Guess it depends on the legal definition of "airplane"... :) Greg ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Sep 98 02:43:56 GMT From: betnal@ns.net Subject: Re:Spam must die/ What about DC-X? Regarding Spam, unfortunately there's nothing illegal about it. It's been my experience that IF you can find the sender and tell them you want to be deleted, they'll almost always do it immediately. simply because they fear legislation being written to penalize them. It's important to get the list name off the their address book, because after a time, they'll sell the address to other spammers. The list owner should contact these folks and say they're spamming a list. They'll probably delete the address right away. The problem will be finding the spammer, because a lot of them give phony return addresses, so e-mailing doesn't work. Yes, making you pay for a long distance call is crappy, but the alternative is worse. Regarding DC-X, Lockheed's X-33 was selected in preference to it. Some have speculated that because DC-X had its genesis in SDI, the Administration would never let it be selected. Others speculate that DC-X was too simple and straightforward. It wasn't big and grandiose enough for NASA and the Air Force. Art ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Sep 98 03:16:35 GMT From: betnal@ns.net Subject: RE: Your Product On 9/18/98 1:29PM, in message <000201bde343$1759b170$eb28012e@valkyrie.esri.com>, "Erik Hoel" wrote: > > > In cases like these, I often send the message right back to them to fill up > their precious mailboxes (no - I am not personally advocating mailbombing > them with large uuencoded files [snicker]). Oftentimes, the stupider outfits > will not send stuff from bogus accounts (? those fictitious addresses that > you cannot reply to). Given that I have not received any bounce > notification, I am guessing that this outfit falls into this classification. > > Erik > Some will use bogus addresses. If the ad doesn't have an e-mail address to send orders to, even if it doesn't bounce, their server will be set up to autodelete all replies. The more responsible organizations will either have an e-mail address to send your desire to be dropped off the list or will tell you to reply with the word "delete" and will take you off. This organization isn't one of them If enough people call and vent, sometimes they mend their ways and sometimes they just ignore you. I'll bet that if you call this number they'll have an answer machine there. However, they probably will take the name of the list off. Note also that they're selling a service to other spammers. Art ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 00:17:52 -0400 From: jeffhclark@juno.com Subject: Navy VTOL transport Anybody have any more information on the duPont conceptual VTOL airlifter that was in last week's Aviation Week? As I recall from reading the magazine at work, it's about the size of a small 737, with two V2500 turbofans with vectored thrust allowing vertical takeoff & landing. The Navy is interested in it for a transport. Vectored thrust was demonstrated on a test stand using some kind of cascade reverser in the bypass part of the engines. The paintings in the article show the plane as looking like a normal airliner shape but with two large inlets under the nose, leading to the turbofans mounted underneath the middle of the wing. I saw a mention of this duPont airplane in an SAE magazine last year. When did duPont get into the airplane business (if it's the same paint company I'm thinking of)? How serious is the whole thing, will it lead to a real prototype, or is this all just a paper exercise? Jeff Clark _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 23:59:16 -0700 From: Ryan Kirk Subject: Re: Spam must die I believe Mr. Kasica would be more informed than I would be on the matter, but here goes. Email reply addresses on spam are easily forged. When you say that they don't bounce so they must not be bogus, you're right: but you're replying to some poor soul whose account got forged by a spammer and is receiving about a million responses right about then. What's worse, often times spammers may not even have an account at an ISP but instead just hijack an SMTP server just long enough to send all their spam, before the sys admin can get on it. This is a very common practice and can be avoided by the ISP's upgrading to the latest version of Apache; unfortunately many of them don't know this so their reputation suffers. Case in point, Juno. Lots of spam says it comes from Juno, but it doesn't -- it's impossible for legitimate users of Juno to send bulk email. But most people don't know how to read mail headers so they mistakenly believe it's Juno's fault that they're receiving spam. That's why companies like Juno are so aggressive at suing spammers because of the damage it does on their image. I know of one columnist at PC Magazine who fell for this and advocated everyone to ban all Juno addresses from their inbox. My point is, you have to be informed to fight back. Don't be such an anti-spam zealot that you make matters worse. The best thing you can do is to write a letter to your representative encouraging anti-spam laws. To make this skunky... I would seriously question the legimitacy of Ben Rich's quote by SETI. I bet he didn't say that. Ryan ____________________________________________________________ Ryan Kirk Website Architect Topflight Productions http://www.topflight.net ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 14:47:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Sam Kaltsidis Subject: Re: Spam must die > I believe Mr. Kasica would be more informed than I would be on the > matter, but here goes. If George still has his mail logs he might be able to figure out who these spammers are, or at least find out who they used to send their spam through so that he can ask them to fix their servers. > > Email reply addresses on spam are easily forged. When you say that they > don't bounce so they must not be bogus, you're right: but you're > replying to some poor soul whose account got forged by a spammer and is > receiving about a million responses right about then. What's worse, > often times spammers may not even have an account at an ISP but instead > just hijack an SMTP server just long enough to send all their spam, > before the sys admin can get on it. This is a very common practice and > can be avoided by the ISP's upgrading to the latest version of Apache; > unfortunately many of them don't know this so their reputation suffers. > Case in point, Juno. Lots of spam says it comes from Juno, but it > doesn't -- it's impossible for legitimate users of Juno to send bulk > email. But most people don't know how to read mail headers so they > mistakenly believe it's Juno's fault that they're receiving spam. > That's why companies like Juno are so aggressive at suing spammers > because of the damage it does on their image. I know of one columnist > at PC Magazine who fell for this and advocated everyone to ban all Juno > addresses from their inbox. If you configure your SMTP servers properly you can really cut down on spam and virtually eliminate it. Unfortunately, many SMTP servers on the net still relay mail or allow people to fake headers and such. If I remember correctly, the sendmail gods on the net have been distributing anti-spam sendmail config files for some time now. There are a lot of other SMTP servers though, and it may not be easy to spam-proof them all. > > My point is, you have to be informed to fight back. Don't be such an > anti-spam zealot that you make matters worse. The best thing you can do > is to write a letter to your representative encouraging anti-spam laws. > > To make this skunky... I would seriously question the legimitacy of Ben As would I. > Rich's quote by SETI. I bet he didn't say that. I agree. > > Ryan > Sam "Gotta fix our SMTP servers" Kaltsidis ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 15:38:26 -0600 (MDT) From: "George R. Kasica" Subject: Re: Spam must die > Email reply addresses on spam are easily forged. When you say that they > don't bounce so they must not be bogus, you're right: but you're > replying to some poor soul whose account got forged by a spammer and is > receiving about a million responses right about then. What's worse, > often times spammers may not even have an account at an ISP but instead > just hijack an SMTP server just long enough to send all their spam, > before the sys admin can get on it. This is a very common practice and > can be avoided by the ISP's upgrading to the latest version of Apache; > unfortunately many of them don't know this so their reputation suffers. > Case in point, Juno. Lots of spam says it comes from Juno, but it > doesn't -- it's impossible for legitimate users of Juno to send bulk > email. But most people don't know how to read mail headers so they > mistakenly believe it's Juno's fault that they're receiving spam. > That's why companies like Juno are so aggressive at suing spammers > because of the damage it does on their image. I know of one columnist > at PC Magazine who fell for this and advocated everyone to ban all Juno > addresses from their inbox. > You are correct, In this care the headers were forged to appeard as to be from the list and the mail routing list is bogus as well, so there is really no path back to trace. Sorry, George ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 15:41:26 -0600 (MDT) From: georgek@netwrx1.com (Netwrx Consulting Inc) Subject: [none] >From lelandh@wvi.com Fri Sep 18 22:10:46 1998 X-Received: from gateway.wvi.com (fNFtUHpVQEJChJexpxQ6hl7yJSo2GVEF@gateway.wvi.com [204.119.27.10]) by netwrx1.com (8.8.5) id WAA07847; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 22:10:45 -0600 (MDT) X-Received: (5725 bytes) by gateway.wvi.com via sendmail with P:stdio/R:inet_hosts/T:smtp (sender: ) id for georgek@netwrx1.com; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 21:10:56 -0700 (PDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #6 built 1998-Aug-8) X-Received: from pc32.wvi.com.(204.119.27.62), claiming to be "wvi.com" via SMTP by gateway.wvi.com, id smtpdAAA0vJ3t_; Fri Sep 18 21:10:49 1998 Message-ID: <36032D47.4F2C522C@wvi.com> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 21:04:24 -0700 From: "Leland R. Haynes" Organization: VFW Post #5638 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (Win98; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: georgek@netwrx1.com Subject: SR-71 Funding..We need your HELP! Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------E6347641B0A8BFCF09FBAACA" ReSent-Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 15:40:46 -0600 (MDT) ReSent-From: "George R. Kasica" ReSent-To: skunk-works@netwrx1.com ReSent-Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --------------E6347641B0A8BFCF09FBAACA Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------C1E3E51F49E3EDDEA9E6E64F" - --------------C1E3E51F49E3EDDEA9E6E64F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit George, Please post on your skunkworks digest the following information. If your subscribers want to help us save the SR-71 Blackbirds have them e-mail or postal mail their Congressmen and Senators with their views as soon as possible. The deadline is September 30 for the vote on funding the Blackbirds. Thank you in advance for your help .For full details your subscribers may go to this new webpage set up expressly for the purpose of securing funding and Congressional Votes for the SR-71 Blackbird. SR-71 News URL: http://www.wvi.com/~lelandh/srnews.htm Your support is greatly appreciated. Leland Haynes, Webmaster, SR-71 Blackbirds SR-71 Blackbirds Front Page URL: http://www.wvi.com/~lelandh/sr-71~1.htm America is about to lose the most sophisticated and reliable spy plane ever built. The SR-71 has proven itself and provided photo intelligence to United States Presidents and members of Congress for over 30 years. Even with today's technology, the United States does not have a system as reliable as the SR-71 in terms of launch capabilitys and real time imagery in times of International Crisis. The author of this webpage encourages all visitors to write their Congressmen and Senators. Funding is immediately needed and in terms of US National Security we need to restore the two operational SR-71's to the Air Force inventory and place them back on active duty. You can Help! This webpage will provide you with the latest SR-71 news and requests for Congressional Support to provide the funding. We have little time to prevent the destruction of the remaining servicable Blackbirds. Congress will vote on the funding September 30, 1998. Form letters will be forthcoming on this webpage, so you can send them on to you elected officials in Washington D.C. In the meantime, you can contact and E-Mail your elected Congressman or Senator by visiting the link below: Congress.Org http://congress.org/main.html End of Message - --------------C1E3E51F49E3EDDEA9E6E64F Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit George,
Please post on your skunkworks digest the following information. If your subscribers want to help us save the SR-71 Blackbirds have them e-mail or postal mail their Congressmen and Senators with their views as soon as possible. The deadline is September 30 for the vote on funding the Blackbirds. Thank you in advance for your help .For full details your subscribers may go to this new webpage set up expressly for the purpose of securing funding and Congressional Votes for the SR-71 Blackbird.
SR-71 News URL:
http://www.wvi.com/~lelandh/srnews.htm
Your support is greatly appreciated.
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SR-71 Blackbirds Front Page URL:
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America is about to lose the most sophisticated and reliable spy plane ever built. The SR-71 has proven itself and
provided photo intelligence to United States Presidents and members of Congress for over 30 years. Even with
today's technology, the United States does not have a system as reliable as the SR-71 in terms of launch
capabilitys and real time imagery in times of International Crisis. The author of this webpage encourages all visitors
to write their Congressmen and Senators. Funding is immediately needed and in terms of US National Security we
need to restore the two operational SR-71's to the Air Force inventory and place them back on active duty. You can
Help! This webpage will provide you with the latest SR-71 news and requests for Congressional Support to provide
the funding. We have little time to prevent the destruction of the remaining servicable Blackbirds. Congress will vote on the funding September 30, 1998. Form letters will be forthcoming on this webpage, so you can send them on to you elected officials in Washington D.C. In the meantime, you can contact and E-Mail your elected Congressman or Senator by visiting the link below:

Congress.Org
http://congress.org/main.html
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