The FBI, who I ranted about last week for spending a half billion dollars on a relational database, are apparently having difficulty providing agents with Internet email accounts. It's not in the budget. Whoa! A half billion for a database and they can't afford email? [Actually it stands to reason - they're being taken to the cleaners on the database deal - it would be stupid to give them any more software money. They probably were quoted upwards of a billion dollars by Lockheed-Martin to setup a Linux box with some email accounts.]

These aren't meant to be secure accounts - we've been assured that there is a secure internal email system (My guess is that very likely it's PROFS, running on a 30 year old IBM mainframe). It's only internet mail they can't access. So why not let the agents have Yahoo or gmail accounts? They're free!

Folks, let's do the right thing. I can come up with a handful of spare email addresses I can part with. Let's get a collection together and donate them to the feds so they can get tons of spam just like the rest of us. 

I might be willing to part with chunkyvomit@baddcafe.com, and even sacrifice loretta.leggs@floozee.com if it's for the good of my country...