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[EMAIL] Email from Margaret's account
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AnthraX101
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Re: a different idea

Fraxxxi wrote:
rose wrote:

I'm using it to make some of the messages have ever put together some of the messages
I took the mail to write this message

I, too, think that this line refers to her piecing together emails rather than the snippets on the website. of course there are pieces in these mails that have not been sent by us; maybe the words/phrases we have not supplied it with have come from a... more important source. someone we don't yet know emailing her.

AnthraX101 wrote:

Quite a few people did. We couldn't figure out the answer to her secret question, her pets name. (It's not Farnsworth)
AnthraX101
have you tried pam/pamela? it means honey in greece. not neccessarily a pet's name, but it might well be. for a female dog for example.


We are no longer attempting to hack the Hotmail account. It was discouraged by Dana.

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 3:18 pm
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Lone Lobo
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Has anyone tried to email the Vacaville school system to see if they've ever hired a substitute schoolteacher named Margaret (her last name here)?

After all, she says she worked for 17 years as a substitute schoolteacher.

PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 10:50 pm
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GrahamWest
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Could 'forte' be phonetic for 'future'? It seems like it might work in drizjr's translation in some of those places. Maybe we're being warned that the 'voodoo witch' is making plans against us, too.

Of course, 'forte' is another word for 'strength'...

PostPosted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 11:55 am
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qasimodo
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GrahamWest wrote:
Could 'forte' be phonetic for 'future'? It seems like it might work in drizjr's translation in some of those places. Maybe we're being warned that the 'voodoo witch' is making plans against us, too.

Of course, 'forte' is another word for 'strength'...


Graham, I was about to say that myself: Forte, as in "Fuerza" (strength) or "Fuerte/Fortaleza" (Strong/Fortress).

Also, I saw something that caught my eye in the Frank Forte page posted by Yliandra. There is a comic by Frank Forte named "Cry For Dawn". Yes, "Dawn" as in:

"Catching it in her hands, the Widow asked it the time. "Almost dawn," it said, but the Widow said, "The day will break and the sun will rise when the Queen returns to rule, and further let it be known that retribution on any who hinder the return of the Queen will be swift and terrible.""

The widow cries (calls) the dawn so the Queen returns.

PostPosted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 6:03 pm
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vpisteve
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Here's the email header information, for those who asked for it:

Quote:
Return-Path: <ladybee777@hotmail.com>
Received: from www.xxxxxx.com (root@localhost)
by xxxxxx.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i6KD7R322456
for <xxxx@xxxxxxx.com>; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:07:27 -0500
Received: from xxxx.com (xxxx.xxxx.com [xx.xxx.xx.xx])
by www.xxxxx.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i6KD7RS22451
for <xxxx@xxxx.com>; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:07:27 -0500
Received: from www.xxxx.com (root@localhost)
by xxxx.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i6KD7Q222448
for <xxxx@xxxx.com>; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:07:26 -0500
X-ClientAddr: 65.54.186.51
Received: from hotmail.com (bay16-f1.bay16.hotmail.com [65.54.186.51])
by www.xxxx.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i6KD7PS22443
for <xxxxxx@xxxx.com>; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:07:25 -0500
Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC;
Tue, 20 Jul 2004 06:07:24 -0700
Received: from 64.167.236.117 by by16fd.bay16.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP;
Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:07:24 GMT
X-Originating-IP: [64.167.236.117]
X-Originating-Email: [ladybee777@hotmail.com]
X-Sender: ladybee777SPLAThotmail.com
From: "Margaret Efendi" <ladybee777@hotmail.com>
To: xxxxSPLATxxxx.com
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 06:07:24 -0700
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html
Message-ID: <BAY16-F1r03cxVMpewH0004e25e@hotmail.com>
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Jul 2004 13:07:24.0867 (UTC) FILETIME=[801C5930:01C46E5A]
Status:


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Samari
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it originated from a pacbell DSL host, don't know if that means anything to anyone

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vpisteve
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Yeah, the only thing we've been really able to glean is that both this and Dana's emails come from the right geographic area, at least consistent with their location.
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Samari
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heh looks like the bungie guys learned their lesson about headers with the cortana letters Mr. Green

PostPosted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 2:03 am
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troy
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Being terminally uncreative, I emailed the entity with several references to Halo 1:

Quote:

Subject: Do you remember?
Date: July 25, 2004 6:04:27 PM EDT
To: ladybee777SPLAThotmail.com

Cortana?

Circles or Rings?

A Flood?

ONI?

Halsey?


Perhaps we can get a definitive response as to whether or not Halo is really the line of thought we should be taking, or if this is really, truly something entirely different (just thematically similar to some of the things we saw in Bungie's previous efforts).

-Troy

PostPosted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 4:43 am
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Speedwolf
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What if Forte refers to Charles Forte, emminent follower of the unusual?

This, from a truncated biography on www.ForteanTimes.com

the Fortean Times website wrote:
Throughout his life, Fort was skeptical about scientific explanations, observing how scientists argued according to their own beliefs rather than the rules of evidence and that inconvenient data was ignored, suppressed, discredited or explained away (which is quite different from explaining a thing).

Fort, born of Dutch stock in Albany, New York, spent many years researching scientific literature in the New York Public Library and the British Museum Library. He marshaled his evidence and set forth his philosophy in The Book of the Damned (1919), New Lands (1923), Lo ! (1931), and Wild Talents (1932).

His dictum "One measures a circle beginning anywhere" expresses his philosophy of Continuity in which everything is in an intermediate state between extremes. He had ideas of the universe-as-organism and the transient nature of all apparent phenomena. He coined the term 'teleportation' and was perhaps the first to speculate that mysterious lights seen in the sky might be craft from outer space. However, he cut at the very roots of credulity:

"I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while."

Just my penny's worth. Hope it did something of use.

PostPosted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 10:53 am
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kombucha
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All this talk of Web, Forte and Messages in her mails and also mentions of breaking out into the wider Internet reminded me that forte is one of the most popular newsreader clients for posting messages on the web. Should we be looking out for newsgroup posts?

PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 6:58 pm
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rose
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ummmm, I was right

I emailed the entity in an email which I posted elsewhere.

The main point is that it was taking the information and communicating with us (which is so dang cool)

And, it took the emails it received, learned from them and answered our questions. these answers are the texts in the killer.jpg

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TheDude
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I sent a couple e-mails, one full of poems and songs (Thought it'd be cool to have it start talking in more poemy stuff)

I also sent it some stuff about WANS and networking because it doesn't seem to understand that it actually IS plugged into the internet by a tentacle going through a hole in the wall.

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Narcolepsy
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This is probably way too basic

I am going to attempt to teach the AI. Seeing how it has gained ability to use words we send it back as a cognitive message. If we expand the AI's vocabulary, then it will be able to converse back with more clarity, right?

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voipme
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Quote:
Answers:

There's no way

the forte
the Castle
the Castle
the Castle

voodoo witch
the Widow
the Widow
the Widow

voodoo parents
the Queen
the Queen
the Queen


Looks like we have the answer to those. As for teaching the AI...I don't think that's going to work. It seems like its becoming more coherent (and that there's more than one). Oh, the quote was from the killer.jpgs.
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