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I get a lot of email. I get email pushing this story or that angle or whatever everyday. I get lots of really weird email. I get conspiracy theory email. I get email giving me "tips" on all sorts of crazy stuff. I get email from those thinking about running for office and I get email from those wanting to spread rumors about those already in office. I get plenty of odd email that I can really only laugh at. (Kieran Michael Lalor, I'm lookin' at you, kid.) I guess it just comes with the gig.
But today I started getting mail from a fairly secretive sender. I got two emails from a domain called "NYFacts.net." Of course, "NYFacts.net" doesn't actually display a page with, ya know, facts about New York. In fact, it displays nothing. Both emails contained the full text of articles written by New York Post whackadoo extraordinaire Fredric U. Dicker.
It looks like I'm not the only one.
The fight between Gov. Eliot Spitzer and Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno has gone electronic, with a secretive operation setting up shop today, apparently to circulate stories on the Bruno’s behalf.
In an e-mail with the subject line “Spitzer’s Abuse of Power” that went out to various Capitol reporters today, a sender identified only as NYFacts.net circulated a clipping of a New York Post story about an allegedly “unprecedented State Police surveillance program” of the senator. The July 5 story formed the basis of a request by Bruno that same day to Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to investigate Spitzer.
NYFacts.net didn’t respond to an e-mail inviting it to tell more about itself. A visit to Web sites with variations of the name turned up blank pages (not “page not found” errors, though). The .com versions led to ads for a firm offering ways to earn money on the Internet.
Moveover, a check of NYFacts.nets’ Internet registry shows that whoever create it took extra steps to shield its identity. Its registration was dated today Monday, using a special proxy service that offers private registration.
Bruno’s office said it knows nothing about this.
As if I needed yet another wingnut pushing me Dicker Drivel...
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