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   Scott Dorsey to jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid   
   Re: The government shutdown   
   19 Oct 25 13:29:33   
   
   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Joy Beeson   wrote:   
   >On Tue, 7 Oct 2025 17:54:37 -0000 (UTC), "Keith F. Lynch"   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> maybe one of the victims annoyed by all these unpunished scam calls   
   >> will hunt down the scammers and kill them.   
   >   
   >The people who do the actual calling are slaves.   
      
   Many of them aren't people at all but machines pretending to be people.   
   Once they think you'll talk they'll transfer you to a human.   
   --scott   
      
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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