Usually my spam filter would remove messages that have the message dated in the future, assuming them to be from improperly-configured clients. However it seems to have fortuitiously missed a few messages, refiling them in the data sharing folder.
From: Thomas Jefferson Stamford <stamford@nasa.mil>
To: address deleted
Subject: SURVEY REPORT 1
Date: 12 Apr 2012 10:13:13 0000
SURVEY REPORT 1
By good luck we have been able to transfer all our accounts and relationships into this empty social networking site. There have been no lost contacts from our community. We all count ourselves fortunate to have found this replacement so quickly after our previous site suffered a sudden and inexplictable bankruptcy.
This site we have moved to has no obvious branding and no domain name. We believe it to have been a staging area, a holder of identities in transit from one network to another. Its applications consist of the typical set of chat boards, horoscopes, groups, fan profiles, and search tools. As yet we have not been able to locate any administrative or moderation functions. We assume that this site was temporarily decommissioned due to a decline in use.
A curious feature of this site is in its lists of "friends of friends" and "people you may know", which, when we compared across several users, had few names in common and do not appear to be consistent with the size of our community.
Estimated size of our social network: 500 connections
(with apologies to ballard)
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