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From: "John Squires" <>
Subject: Re: [DISBROW-L] re: refill kits
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 02:26:25 -0400


I'm preparing a response to the TWO ABIGAIL DISBROWS saga we have been
musing about lately, with a bit of news also, plus what evidence I have
found for a somewhat more connected inter-relation between the three major
Disbrow clans of early Connecticut. I jusrt need to check a few more facts
here in CT. But in the meanwhile, my response to "ink re-fills" warrants I
feel may be of interest:
I must guess we all know now what the "scam" is all about via "cyber
revolution"! I bought an Epson "Stylus 300" printer few years back only
to inevitably break delicate plastic carriage which seats the $30 (!!) ink
cartridge I always had to replace every 5 mins.... breakage, I fear, was
"designed" into this flimsy armature (now I use a piece of plastic wedged in
to seat the cartridge correctly after each too frequent replacement!)! But
more: an appliance repairman came over to fix our older dishwasher last
month (replacement parts at $150)....he said he'd just worked on a much
newer Maytag and that the rotating water jet nowadays is made of just
PLASTIC (instead of stainless steel, whatever) and his customer already
needed to replace this after just a year !! since it had MELTED (probably
just long enuf for warranty to run out, eh??). I get it....so now that we
get "hooked" on ALL such hi-tech gis-mology (& hooked on the internet
now...?) "they've" already figured out ways to further "pick our pockets",
like those bank ATM's, ... huummmm!
Too bad, had hoped to try out those ink re-fills myself, well maybe
one&half re-fills is ALMOST worth it, mess & all , ....to mess up "their"
plans for all of our wallets, eh...??? Here follows something about
something hi-tech called "Project ECHELON" I had sent 6 months ago to an
environmental web-circle I recently belonged to locally (hey Frank Disbrow,
you know: about SAVING HORSEBARN HILL). This "Project Echelon" issue is
all about internet privacy. You may have seen broadcast about this already
on CBS 60 MINUTES month or so ago, that every single one of our e-mail
messages that we all send routinely are being checked out for "suspicious"
behavior, as keyed by certain "hot"-words". (VERY curiously, after writing
this up, I just now have tonight, April 3, seen a DISCOVERY CHANNEL TV
broadcast about hi-tech invasions of privacy and as used against legitimate
political dissenters such as environmental activists, just as am I here
locally.....also mentioning Project ECEHLON in that regard---additionally
saying that this intercepts virtually ALL telephone, telex, fax and e-mail
traffic, period! A friend of mine on the web in Britain who is curator of
the MARY ROSE Trust there acknowledged that Brits have known of this for
some time and with "listening posts" over there & in Australia, just as CBS
reported after he & I chatted in February---With some great concern in
Europe over ECHELON's apparent use for coporate/industrial espionage!! So,
all of us BEWARE!!)
"......Also this from BOSTON GLOBE today/thursday: "NET RESULT:
Some Worlds Widen, Others Narrow", ....a controversial theory, published
this week, concludes increased Internet use leads to less face-to-face
interaction....
"From article: "Doubts about just where the internet is leading us
bubbled up thru the 1990's. Books such as 1995's SILICON SNAKEOIL [note:
very interesting & disturbing book by the same guy who wrote bestseller: The
CUCKOO"S EGG!] turned up the heat...But the Stanford study is re-igniting
issue, and the question is being debated anew, both offline and on: Does the
Net connect us or does it disconnect us?...."
"AND from my own e-mail, the following (...at risk of this same
government interception, according to all news accounts so far!!):
"....Please now also recall what I mentioned in my recent e-mail to
HBH web-circle, about US
intelligence community internet monitoring, via something called "Project
Echelon" (which is NOT just one of those urban legends, please tell..
Actually, have heard of this myself several times over the past year & more,
including MOST recently in December, as so very surprisingly aired on our
NBC local affiliate "Connecticut News Channel 30", perhaps some of you
[locally] saw this too. It is first time a major affiliate has reported
about the
issue of [broad-based] internet monitoring by the NSA [Nat'l Security
Agency] & US intelligence
community, if I'm not mistaken. Well, there may be no "virus" herein, as
the gentleman below
quoted is so anxious to indicate, but,...guess what else it reveals about
our electronic "information age", eh...!!??"
---Stephen T. Squires
See you next time with something far more relevant to our DISBROW web
circle, thanks for listening....

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