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palmoteatoday at 5:22 PM2 repliesview on HN

> ...some of our customers were 3-letter govt agencies. We'd get support requests / bug reports with almost no details from random aol.com addresses. It was bizarre.

You'd think they could at least setup a front company at least. Using AOL addresses that way seems too suspicious. Competent person using AOL with a weird technical question? Must be the NSA.


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drewg123today at 5:28 PM

And the incompetent questions all came from defense contractors..

kotaKattoday at 6:38 PM

Hey now, Flowers By Irene was just really connected to the World Wide Web back then. Who knew Teleflora was a secret numbers station?