四 川 铁 FourRiverIron

For the record I have no proof that Mr. LOL works for the FBI, but from the way he hates Libertarians it sure sounds like he works for some government agency that wants to destroy freedom fighters who are upset with the way the government has flushed the toilet down the Constitution down the toilet.

And while we are talking about Mr. Light on Liberty I want to just say hi to Mr. Light on Liberty while he reads this web page being paid by our tax dollars to spy on harmless homeless people who are absolutely no threat whatsoever to the government.

Mr. Light on Liberty don't you have any real criminals to hunt down for your government masters? Perhaps some bank robbers, rapists, robbers or muggers?

OK, so you are a coward and are afraid to hunt down real criminals who might fight back. I guess that is why you chose to hunt down harmless homeless people.

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New York Times sends email to millions by mistake

3:53 p.m. CST, December 28, 2011

Some 8 million people received emails from the New York Times on Thursday offering a special discount if they would reconsider their decision to cancel their subscriptions.

The trouble is, the offer was supposed to go to only about 300 people who had decided to stop taking home delivery of the newspaper -- it was erroneously sent by a New York Times employee to more than 8 million people on an email marketing list.

The debacle lit up social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook, sparking concerns that hackers might have broken into the newspaper's computer network to send out spam.

A spokeswoman for the newspaper blamed human error, saying hackers were not involved and security was not at fault.

"An email was sent earlier today from The New York Times in error. This email should have been sent to a very small number of subscribers, but instead was sent to a vast distribution list made up of people who had previously provided their email address to The New York Times," the paper said in a statement.

The email offered a 50 percent reduced rate for 16 weeks on home delivery.

The New York Times is owned by New York Times Co.

www.nytimes.com

A Note to Readers

The Times mistakenly sent e-mails Wednesday to subscribers and others, erroneously stating that home delivery of the newspaper had been canceled. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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December 28, 2011, 2:29 pm

The Times E-Mails Millions by Mistake to Say Subscriptions Were Canceled

By AMY CHOZICK

The New York Times mistakenly sent an e-mail on Wednesday to more than eight million people who had shared their information with the company, erroneously informing them that they had canceled home delivery of the newspaper.

The Times Company, which initially mischaracterized the mishap as spam, apologized for sending the e-mail. The people who received the message represented a cross section of readers who had given their e-mail addresses to the newspaper, said Eileen Murphy, a spokeswoman for the Times Company.

“We regret that the error was made, but no one’s security has been compromised,” she said.

The e-mail urged recipients to consider continuing their subscriptions to The Times at 50 percent off for 16 weeks. The message sent off a flood of Twitter reactions and calls to The Times.

The Times’s official Twitter feed sent this message: “If you received an e-mail today about canceling your New York Times subscription, ignore it. It’s not from us.”

Those comments raised questions from some recipients about whether hackers had access to their credit card and personal information, a misimpression that Ms. Murphy said the company was working to correct.

She said the e-mail had been sent by a Times employee and not Epsilon Interactive, a third-party service the company uses to communicate with subscribers.

Late Wednesday afternoon, The Times sent an e-mail to recipients of the erroneous note explaining the error. A notice also appeared on NYTimes.com.

“It’s in our interest now to make sure people understand the correct situation,” Ms. Murphy said.

The Times is the nation’s third-largest newspaper in Monday to Friday print subscriptions, after The Wall Street Journal and USA Today, and No. 1 in Sunday subscriptions, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Its Web site had 32.3 million unique viewers in November, according to comScore.

Here are the two emails I received from the NY Times.