EPA Honors Fake Employee

National Review ^ | June 3, 2013 | Eliana Johnson

[TurboZamboni]

“Fake but accurate”, as Dan Rather Biased used to say.

[Corey Ohlis]

Comrade Ogilvie from “1984”.

[no-s]

When I read the comments on National Review and other online fora, I see a constant refrain of "explanation" of why she and other high-ranking people need to do this sort of thing because otherwise they would be inundated with spam and gratuitous email. Frankly these folks are either clueless on how legitimate email systems work, or they are trying to pander to "common knowledge", ie trying to sway peoples perception with a facile explanation rooted in what "everybody knows".

However this doesn't ring true to anyone who understands how email works. Modern email systems are perfectly capable of classifying incoming and outgoing messages by class, sender, distinguishing digital signatures, and routing accordingly. This argument of "well of course it has to be that way" is a snark and smacks of "sock puppetry" (google is your friend here).