Re: List under surveillance? [WAS Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked]

[Bret Busby <bret@busby.net>]

On 25/1/25 11:34, Will Mengarini wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 06:12:30AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> > > In viewing the full header of the above message (to try to find
> > > which country or timezone, is the origin of the message sent
> > > to the mailing list, for an extraneous reason), I observed a
> > > weird thing, that makes me wonder whether the mailing list and/or
> > > Debian, is, as is apparently shown, connected to the infamous NSA.
> > >
> > > "X-Message-Flag Supplemental report sent to reaper.nsa.gov. rc=0"
> > >
> > > Could someone please clarify the apparent
> > > involvement of the NSA in this mailing list?
> > >
> > > Or, is the mailing list simply under surveillance by the NSA?
> > > ..
> > > Bret Busby
> > > Armadale
> > > West Australia
> > > (UTC+0800)
>
> * Andrew M.A. Cater <amacater@einval.com> [25-01/24=Fri 22:31 +0000]:
> > X-Message-Flag
> >
> >      The header field "X-Message-Flag" is used by Microsoft
> > mail clients and can contain a custom text.  Mail clients from
> > Microsoft (such as Outlook) use this header field when converting
> > Message objects used by Microsoft products to MIME messages.
> >
> > I suspect it's coincidental / benign or a
> > joke, given that it's a Microsoft-ism here.
> >
> > (Or maybe that's what they want you to think ;-) )
> >
> > With every good wish, as ever,
> >
> > Andrew Cater
> > (amacater@debian.org)
>
> Air quality in Seattle is monitored by volunteers who buy and
> operate monitoring stations, and publish their observations
> every hour.  They can name their stations whatever they want, so
> usually pick nearby street names or other geographic features.
>
> One monitoring station is named "FBI Surveillance Van".

That group of people (organisation?) seems similar to the Weather 
Underground (wunderground.com), where people buy, set up, and operate, 
their own small local weather stations, and provide localised, free 
access (here in Australia, the government department associated with 
weather monitoring and forecasting, severely restricts public online 
access ("We are a government department - our role is to not provide 
service to the public") including restricting public access to emergency 
weather warnings) to local weather observations and forecasting.

Is the FBI Surveillance Van, black, with the staffing by white men 
wearing black suits and black sunglasses? I presume that the web site 
for that one, is reverse mode - white text on a black background...

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
..............