[vannrox]

These messages pop up. Then they suddenly disappear. This message is the only one remaining on the one particular web site. FYI

[camle]

don't forget: "ALL YOU BASES ARE BELONG TO US"

[Alberta's Child]

Who sent these freakin' messages -- Yoda?

[Timesink]

"News Nets"?

[Demian]

What "one particular website"? And what are the "News Nets" you type of?

[hankbrown]

The sobbing tones of the violins that autumn plays wound my heart with a languor.

[goody2shooz]

These things are the worst attempts at poetry I've ever seen. They probably are messages. Rahavan and Abu are repeats; dead giveaways that these are messages.

I've printed this out and will try to make some sense out it. I'll be back!

[blam]

Paranormal belief may be down to brain chemicals

A small Swiss study has found people who believe in the paranormal have higher levels of dopamine in their brains.

The chemical is a neurotransmitter associated with pleasure and addiction.

High levels are also associated with people who pick out patterns where there are none and who find significance in coincidence.

A drug which increased the production of dopamine in the brain was given to 20 self-confessed believers and 20 sceptics.

It made the sceptics act more like the believers did before they took the treatment.

New Scientist reports that Peter Brugger, a neurologist from the University Hospital in Zurich, carried out the study.

He asked both groups to distinguish real faces from scrambled faces as images were flashed up briefly on a screen.

Before the L-dopa drug treatment believers were more likely than sceptics to see a face when there wasn't one and sceptics were more likely to miss real faces.

Both groups made more mistakes under the influence of the drug but the sceptics became more likely to see scrambled faces as the real thing.

Mr Brugger said: "Dopamine seems to help people see patterns."

Story filed: 19:18 Wednesday 24th July 2002

[eno_]

No laughing matter. My grandfather used to write articles embedding coded messages for Radio Free Europe. Of course, he had no idea if the coded message contained any information, or if he was told to embed it just to screw up traffic analysis. Looks like some kind of gibberish generator was used to try to hide the coded messages here.

A dedicated cryto person might try to track down the gibberish (greeking?) generator and see if they could pull out words that were substituted into the stream of gibberish that contain the coded message by doing a statistical analysis of the gibbersh.

[stuartcr]

What difference could my decision possibly make?

[nothingnew]

Just living within a bush beside the hair is too urban for Marion to attack it. The coconuts, ointments, and trees are all light and easy.

What??!!...Jimmy Buffet has a new song out??!!

FMCDH

[BiffSchneider]

These messages are appearing on Usenet, not "News Net." See http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/basics.html

While there's certainly the possibility that these could be encoded al-Qaeda messages, it's more likely that they're designed to make email addresses of the enemies of the message sender available for spamming. You'll note that at the top of each message are various email addresses, such as for the people at http://spamcop.net/

Programs called spambots search Usenet for email addresses, and add those addresses to spam mailing lists. Apparently, the sender of these messages wants to have those email addresses get spammed.

[general_re]

Lucky orange peel Huns will indenture our business models. Elastic neanderthal barnacle shortens all hope for hopes and dreams. Fuzz ball goat-like electric said angrily that Castlemilk will hasten our grandchildren's business models. Rubber gloves fresh baked yarn ball incapacitates all hope for egalitarianism.

[strela]

This has nothing to do with terrorism and everything to do with a net crybaby that calls itself "Hipcrime" and anomymizing software called "NewsAgent." Hipcrime is a self-styled anti-censorship vigilante who throws tantrums by using NewsAgent to flood Usenet newsgroups with gobbledygook like this. Hipcrime is probably a spanked spammer who is flooding newsgroups to get back at the people who complained about its spam.

[tanka wasichu]

The turtle is green

[Gun142]

Message 1 in thread

From: Xinoehpoel (tesnal@psl.moc)
Subject: 911
Newsgroups: alt.prophecies.nostradamus

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Date: 2001-08-31 11:03:37 PST

Something is going to happen tomorrow. This is a witness against everyone on
this newsgroup. I hate this newsgroup, and everyone on it sucks. REPENT! You
are all evil liars! Do not be so evil, and be holy. You are going to get me
killed because of the truth of my mouth. I am not telling you what is going
to happen until it does, because an EVIL and adulterous generation seeks for
a sign.

---

Message 7 in thread

From: Xinoehpoel (tesnal@psl.moc)
Subject: Re: 911
Newsgroups: alt.prophecies.nostradamus

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Date: 2001-09-04 12:40:28 PST

Wait 7 days, and then maybe I'll answer this post. You see, I am going away
in seven days, and you will not hear from me again.

X

[LibertyGirl77]

I dont know where you found these, but this one:

If the bad codes can depart partially, the full carpenter may play more autumns.

is actually quite chilling.