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Thanks to the many people who have responded to an earlier post by sending in 419 scam e-mails from their inboxes, I am now more than halfway on my goal of collecting one spam from each African country. This is mostly due to Vegard Engen, but the most recent additions, Tunisia and Libya were forwarded to me by Scott Worley. A big thanks to all of you.

And, of course, if you are from Algeria, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, the Central African Republic, Chad, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, the Seychelles, Somalia, or Tanzania, please send me your urgent business proposal.

[Friday, Dec 16, 2005 @ 16:10] | [miscellaneous] | # | G

The Norwegian Loran C stations will not be shut down on January 1st after all, as I said they would be in my previous post.

The Norwegian government announced today that they are going to propose to the Parliament that the Loran C stations at Jan Mayen, Berlevåg, Bø and Værlandet are to be kept operative throughout 2006. By doing this, they are bowing to pressure from several European countries who want to have Loran C remain as a backup system in case GPS fails.

Links to news stories (in Norwegian): NRK Nordland, Vesterålen Online

[Friday, Dec 09, 2005 @ 18:48] | [tech] | # | G