Okay, yeah, on Friday, February 6, 2004, Mr C got an email from a "Houston Parsons" <MNEMMYHNXIBUTZ@list.ru>

The email subject was: Re: Mrcrackers - Bachelor's Diploma, Master's, or PhD - No Classes Necessary

And inside it said:

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And then, of course, in case Mr C, or I, hadn't had a recent filling up of random numbers, the email gave us some:

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And then, too, random words -- some of which are real words, many aren't, some are borderline words:

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