Originally from: mark purdey
                        
Exactly folks,

I have never trusted emails and cyberspace to any degree, particularly when one is dealing with important communications which can lead to prosecution if you fail to deliver.

I tend to write all of my emails off line , and then do a 'hit and run' send of mailbox 'on line' , withdrawing as rapidly as possible.

Whenever I go 'on line' long term, all manner of problems seem to start happening. Only yesterday, I lost my entire incoming mail section from my email filing cabinent after going on line for 15minutes. Usually the problems are much more selective than that. So this is why i am reluctant to fill out any forms in 'on line' mode, regardless of the security measures in place.

the perpetuators of this problem became evident when I installed a rather basic firewall system on my computer. Whilst it failed to stop the more sophisticated hackers ( those who were operating on behalf of government or corporations ), the firewall did at least tell me who they were, as well as providing me with their email contact addresses and computer numbers. It transpired that these bodies were invariably linked to the PR agencies who work for the bio-pharmaceutical industries, numerous government agencies ( mainly US ), the military, scientific institutions , detective agencies who work for the corporates, and even the Chinese academy of sciences who were visiting my computer on a weekly basis !!!

In light of the reseach data that i used to naively store on my 'working' computer , my data and communications were obviously their reasons for paying me a visit !! So this is why I do not like going on line for too long. The firewall alarm goes off almost immediately ( and continually ) when i go on line !!! I obviously have to switch it off for a peaceful life.

To add to list of BCMS stupidities, the communication that we recieved from them yesterday was attempting to console us – presumably in an attempt to get us to accept the punishment. They said that we were at perfect liberty to breed from this animal ( the one they have refused a passport ), and then register its calves in the normal way. They have obviously not checked up their records to see that they have debarred the passport for a bull calf !!! But maybe they are so locked into the vacuum of cyberspace, political correctness and sexual equality et al, that they have become divorced from the real world of nature and think that bulls can concieve and raise calves !!

Best,

mark