Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30360 invoked from network); 4 Nov 2003 08:03:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO netmail02.services.quay.plus.net) (212.159.14.221) by mailstore with SMTP; 4 Nov 2003 08:03:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 20258 invoked by uid 10001); 4 Nov 2003 08:03:21 -0000 X-Filtered-by: Plusnet (hmail v1.01) X-Spam-detection-level: 11 Received: from post.thorcom.com (193.82.116.20) by netmail02.services.quay.plus.net with SMTP; 4 Nov 2003 08:02:55 -0000 X-Fake-Domain: majordom Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.14) id 1AGw8p-000362-DJ for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2003 08:02:19 +0000 Received: from [194.247.47.231] (helo=mailout.zetnet.co.uk) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1AGw8o-00035t-Sq for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2003 08:02:18 +0000 Received: from irwell.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.47.48] helo=zetnet.co.uk) by mailout.zetnet.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AGw8o-0000ZN-00 for ; Tue, 04 Nov 2003 08:02:18 +0000 X-Fake-Domain: johnb5a82ea1a4 Received: from johnb5a82ea1a4 (bts-0173.dialup.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.48.173]) by zetnet.co.uk (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.6.zet1) with ESMTP id hA482E63018958 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 08:02:17 GMT X-Bad-Message-ID: no DNS (johnb5a82ea1a4) Message-ID: <000b01c3a2a9$ff8d02f0$ad30f7c2@johnb5a82ea1a4> From: "John Rabson" To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 08:01:30 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Subject: LF: Unusual QRM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on post.thorcom.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.60 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes Sender: Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Spam-Rating: 2 Has Mal been using TUPperware insulators? >From the The Times 4 November 2003. "Randy ram gets the secret world all overexcited By Simon de Bruxelles STAFF at the top secret GCHQ monitoring base were baffled. They had nothing like it before. Was the high-frequency transmission a covert signal from a spy? Or something more sinister? Now the origin of the signal which puzzled British Intelligence can be revealed: an over-excited ram was rubbing himself against a radio mast. The intelligence community's finest moment has been revealed in the Daily Observer, a spoof newspaper for staff at GCHQ in Cheltenham, which employs 4,500 people. The mast in a field in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, was picking up a signal at roughly the same time every day. The paper says: "An investigation was quickly launched, revealing that the signal was across all the high-frequency bands. Stranger still, only Scarborough's aerials could pick it up. Even stranger, it happened only in daytime And to one antenna in particular. Exhaustive tests were launched, revealing the answer - a horny ram. "In between servicing some local ewes, it was partial to rubbing its horns against the aerial masts." A GCHQ spokesman, Bob McNally, said: "It was part of the ritual that the ram went through after it had made a conquest I believe the ram was notching up a mark on the pylon, so to speak." The tabloid paper is a rare glimpse of humour in the normally po-faced world of secret intelligence. GCHQ monitors communciations from around the world, from e-mails to mobile telephone calls, but this was its first message from a randy ram." 73 John Rabson G3PAI