US Military Uses Spam, Internet Explorer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday January 11, 2003 @07:17AM from the diplomacy-through-alternate-means dept.

chundo writes "CNN reports that the United States government has been secretly encouraging the defection of senior Iraqi officials via email. Iraq is responding by shutting down some of their internet gateways to prevent these emails from getting through, forcing the US to find alternate means to deliver the message. Maybe they should have enlisted this guy - emails from him keep showing up in my inbox no matter what I do." This story about the growing military network bandwidth crunch shows the U.S. military trying hard to get every soldier online, all the time.

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Re:Is the US government stupid? by shyster · 2003-01-11 08:02 · Score: 5, Informative

Actually they're telling them to report to the UN.
The message includes instructions to the e-mail recipients to contact the United Nations in Iraq if they want to defect.