Spying or co-operation of Compuserve?

Bernd Reh

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Jan 27, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/27/97

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Hello!
Sorry if this isn't the right Newsgroup but I didn't found anything more
suitable (hints to me and forwarding highly appreciated).
When I loaded a home page of a Compuserve user
(http://www.ourworld.compuserve.com/...) with Nutscape I was very
surprised to see in between shortly a notice "Connect: Host
ivory.nosc.mil Waiting for reply". The interesting question: How can a
military host appear when I try to connect to Compuserve?? I'm really
puzzled and flabberghasted (I like this word :-)). I am aware that
(theoretically) any Internmet traffic could be routed via a military
server also but up to now I never saw the name of any server in between
in the Nutscape status line. Paranoia is starting to leap on me.
Please answer me also by Email since I'm not reading these groups
regular.

Bernd Reh, Germany

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The lemmings are closing in!!"

Brian Romansky

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Jan 27, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/27/97

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The page that you were loading (from Compuserve) may have included an
image or some other object that it referenced from ivory.nosc.mil. A
web page can include source material from anywhere and you generally
would not notice unless you look at the html code.

Brian.

Nicko J. Demeter

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Feb 3, 1997, 3:00:00 AM2/3/97

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Damn, it's amazing you even got that since the server you mentioned is
nowhere to be found. Oh and by the way, what's Nutscape?

In article <32ECF1...@rbgg252.rbg1.siemens.net>,
Bern...@rbgg252.rbg1.siemens.net wrote:

> Hello!
> Sorry if this isn't the right Newsgroup but I didn't found anything more
> suitable (hints to me and forwarding highly appreciated).
> When I loaded a home page of a Compuserve user
> (http://www.ourworld.compuserve.com/...) with Nutscape I was very
> surprised to see in between shortly a notice "Connect: Host
> ivory.nosc.mil Waiting for reply". The interesting question: How can a
> military host appear when I try to connect to Compuserve?? I'm really
> puzzled and flabberghasted (I like this word :-)). I am aware that
> (theoretically) any Internmet traffic could be routed via a military
> server also but up to now I never saw the name of any server in between
> in the Nutscape status line. Paranoia is starting to leap on me.
> Please answer me also by Email since I'm not reading these groups
> regular.
>
> Bernd Reh, Germany
>
> --
> "Keep on running and don't look back.
> The lemmings are closing in!!"

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Nicko Demeter
Content Developer
The Sacramento Bee
http://www.sacbee.com
ni...@sacbee.com

John M. Olsen

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Feb 4, 1997, 3:00:00 AM2/4/97

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Bern...@rbgg252.rbg1.siemens.net wrote:
> When I loaded a home page of a Compuserve user
> (http://www.ourworld.compuserve.com/...) with Nutscape I was very
> surprised to see in between shortly a notice "Connect: Host
> ivory.nosc.mil Waiting for reply". The interesting question: How can a
> military host appear when I try to connect to Compuserve??

The user you connected to probably was referencing a bitmap or something from
the mil site. Reconnect and closely examine the html source for the document,
and I bet you'll find the answer to your riddle.

If not, Compuserve must be in cahoots with the feds, with no less than 20
agents assigned specifically to spy on you. (They've also probably reworded
this message by routing this message via their secret USENET processing
server.)

:^)

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John M. Olsen
in...@xmission.comm (replace comm with com when emailing.)