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I emailed the author earlier, and wrote a blog piece on this.
He mistakenly or perhaps intentionally equates Catholics with Italian immigrants who became anarchists.

http://area43.net/2012/09/the-new-york-times-equates-catholics-with-anarchist-radicals/

Well everyone, I got a follow up, I haven't written him back yet. However I intend to let him know that while he considers it a "laugh" in these days of rathergate and DNC operated media, it's not that far off the mark to wonder "what if" AH

Well, you win the "Technology Wizard" prize for figuring out that I had failed to noticed that the IP addresses were not the public addresses for the machines.

However, your suggestion that someone at The Bee is spoofing this is too far off the mark to be considered anything more than a laugh. (We also don't use the 192.168. range at The Bee, but I do use it at home for my personal network and I should have noticed.)

Here's the pertinent line that is duplicated (except for the IP address) in all of the mail:

Received: from democrats.org (192.168.10.23) by mailer.democrats.org with ESMTP; 01 Oct 2004 19:56:00 -0400 Message-Id: <3f3s8b$265c@mailer.democrats.org>

The machine mailer.democrats.org does exist and, as you suggest, this machine is in the range of democrats.org -- 65.221.0.212.

Since several weeks ago I warned democrats.org that I was going to filter all of its mail, I wouldn't be surprised that they attempted to find a way to hide the real IPs. At the time, their mail could be identified as coming from composer.democrats.org, which is a machine with the IP address of 65.21.0.215, again in the range for democrats.org.

But it is also just as easy to believe that democrats.org gets so much traffic that it is shared by six servers and these IPs are the internal IPs and useful inside the organization to debug any problems.

One thing I forgot to mention in the article is that there's another Kerry-related server that is used to send letters. I started filtering it a few weeks ago and forgot about it since no one complains that their letter wasn't used. I was looking through the "filtered" basket and saw a bunch of post-debate emails. That server is identified as alston.kerrytech.net and resolves to 69.20.84.211, which is a server rented from Rackspace.

Headers look like this:

Received: from thorson ([10.236.23.143]) by alston.kerrytech.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id i92IPOi09141 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2004 14:25:24 -0400

The domain is registered to JK Inc. (37595603O) P.O. Box 77247 Washington, DC 20003 US Phone: 202-712-3000 Fax: 202-712-3001

I may print some of your stuff in a followup column, but I'm not sure whether it will fly with the boss, since the discussion of IPs and servers is far removed from the general readership's expertise.

Again, thanks for pointing out my error.

John Hughes
Letters Editor

I'm a long time reader, very very rare poster.. but my curiousity was piqued this morning reading this. Since I work with networks a lot, I figured I'd email them and see what they say. The body of the thread above is what I sent them. I'd like to see what the rest of you think. Thanks!

the point isn't so much the bad taste, (you are right I have seen worse) but at least the others have used their 'own material ' this guy is stealing from US!
We paid for the website and the department of homeland security.
I dont know, this one just really got me irate.