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[EMAIL-PUZZLE] Mystes - Your Failure

[Citizen Kane]

Okay, where have I heard this phrase before?

[Shad0]

[Rogi Ocnorb]

Nothing regarding "differences" is jumping out at me, could it just be the references to "nature" and "flaws"

"man" seems obvious, but doesn't seem to lead anywhere.

[Killalaz]

[Citizen Kane]

[Sylvia]

I don't have an answer, but doing some research, found the following:

---Grade------------Lesson------------------------Task
---Raven-----------Humility-------------------Serve Others
---Nymphs------Self-Examination---Uncover Internal Secrets

[Shelina]

As 'the answer is hidden before your eyes' I tried the obvious: "Man is the answer to all the questions" (it's in the message)
I replied with that sentence, but I received the autoreply message we received the other time, the 'Congratulations, Nymphus' one

[pagrashtak]

Some brainstorming:

Well, the obvious (though not necessarily correct) method would be to contrast the "Your Success" and "You Failure" emails. The most obvious difference is the subject line, as was already pointed out; perhaps we need to find what the difference between success and failure is.

There are formatting differences between the emails also. The first paragraph of the plain text email is indented in the "Failure" email but not the "Success" email. On the HTML side this shows up as extra <div> tags. The plain text of the "Failure" email has extra asterisks around the "Those who have..." line - on the HTML side there are extra tags - non-breaking spaces in their own <div> section with <em> applied. This seems minor, but I thought I should mention it just in case.

Another difference between the messages is the time. For me, the Success email is dated 13 Aug 2006 06:57:42. The Failure email is dated 18 August 2006 19:38:07. This is a difference of 5d 12h 40m 25s. The times and differences are probably different for different persons, but I'd bet they are all in the five day range. I've tried variations like fivedays, 5days, 5d, etc. at mystes.com without success so far.

[ZMaiden]

Heres the thing. The puzzle has nothing to do with the second email, its a hint. The puzzle is the first email, we didn't solve it, so they sent us a second email with a hint. So we're not comparing the two emails to each other to find the difference. The "difference" is something in the first email. Now, I keep coming back to the maker/follower stuff. They don't seem like opposites, more like blank is to blank, as blank is to .... Other than that, I got no spec.

[Citizen Kane]

Hmmm, I never even got the first email, but I was sent the failure email.
Is there a new page at mystes.com? Possibly with a similar message as the emails?

Because I can't find those phrases in any of my searches on the net.

[Sylvia]

Here is my take on the puzzle.

First taking Success / Failure if you remove all letters that are repeated you are left with FRAIL.

I sent an email to frailSPLATmystes.com, at about 2:30pm on 8/18/06. So far it didn't bounce nor did I get an auto response.

[drizjr]

Just posting some fodder for thought.

Both "Your Success" and "Your Failure" are 11 letters (4+7).

If the "differences" refer to the paired words, here are some word plays on them.

Maker/tailor---->tailer/Follower
Maker/ creator or God...... Follower/ disciple

Model/ original....... Source/ origin
Both Model and Source are synonyms of "matrix". (see here)

Healer = therapist....... Destroyer= the rapist

That's all I got.

[Citizen Kane]

Couple of definitions I got for each pair from dictionary.com:

[drizjr]

"the answer's hidden before your eyes."

Could that mean the stars coming from the eyes of History?

In chat, we were able to find these....

FOLLOWER= Taurus/ Aldebaran
HEALER = Asclepius/ Ophiuchus
DESTROYER = Perses