Does anyone know what this is about?

[Anne Lauren]

I e-mailed one of my guy friends that I grew up with, today. He's in the Navy and just left recently to go on a submarine for a couple of months. Anyway, he has a military e-mail account. Well, today, I checked my e-mails and I got a message from the "Navy Military Mail Center". It was basically this long ass standard message stateing that they had to "revise" my message that I sent to him, etc... That he would be receiveing a "modified" version of what I wrote. It also stated that they had the right to reject messages for different various reasons, one of them being messages that were too long in length. And how they worded the message was rude, too. Like, it said, "some people tend to be inadaquate in being able to summarize and state the main points of their message. As a result, their message may be too long in length, which is grounds for rejection." After reading it, I was like, "What the fuck was that all about?" I felt like I was in trouble or something. I didn't write anything "dirty" and it was like a paragraph long...so I wonder what they "revised"? Anyway, I thought that was really odd. Does anyone know why the Navy does that?

[Bob]

loose lips sink ships

[Anne Lauren]

Seriously, though. He gave me his e-mail address and told me to write him while he was gone. He never mentioned that the messages would be crititiqued and voted on as to rather or not they were worthy enough to be sent. Then, if they barely qualified, and the Navy didn't like how it was worded...then they could rewrite whatever the fuck they wanted. Hell, who knows what Josh received from me? I mean, I wrote it and even I don't even know.

[Loppfessor]

loose lips sink ships


Yeah that's what I would figure...Seriously though anything done on or sent to a government computer is automatically subject to monitoring and filtering. They filter content for both things that may be inappropriate for a DOD system and for content that should not be transferred over and unclassified system. As far as the length thing I would guess that they have very limited storage available on their mail servers so they limit the size on everything. I've never heard of text length being limited though it's usually just attachments and such.

[Anne Lauren]

Yeah that's what I would figure...Seriously though anything done on or sent to a government computer is automatically subject to monitoring and filtering. They filter content for both things that may be inappropriate for a DOD system and for content that should not be transferred over and unclassified system. As far as the length thing I would guess that they have very limited storage available on their mail servers so they limit the size on everything. I've never heard of text length being limited though it's usually just attachments and such.

Huh...Interesting. Thanks. I mean, that does make sense, but the way the warning message was conveyed...it kinda freaked me out, like I had done something bad wrong and if I did it again I was going to be punished, severely. It just caught me off guard.

But, I'm wondering what I might have wrote that needed to be filtered? I might have wrote a cuss word or two, but, then again, I'm sure a submarine full of men shouldn't be too shocked. Other than that...I don't know. Anyway, they did mention something about attachments, too. I just scanned through it, though.

Hell, I'm scared to e-mail him again.

[mp-seventythree]

It may be something to do with the satellite systems they use to send and receive their e-mails. Our cutters have them and they're really expensive (about $10 per minute) to use - they may restrict e-mail length and content so their system doesn't get clogged up.

[Anne Lauren]

It may be something to do with the satellite systems they use to send and receive their e-mails. Our cutters have them and they're really expensive (about $10 per minute) to use - they may restrict e-mail length and content so their system doesn't get clogged up.

That make sense, too. In my opinion, the warning message should have been more "cut and dry" and just simply listed the criteria that must be met when sending an e-mail. I mean, this thing was like 2 pages long. It was like some sort of "official document" or something.

[TonsOfFun]

A message 100 pages long wouldn't be too big for any modern communiation device to carry. never mind the milatary.

It's just Big Brother keeping an eye on you. They have your IP address now, next time you walk naked in front of your computer, make sure the screen is off. You never know who is monitoring.

[mp-seventythree]

It's a government document, they're never short and to the point.

[cosmo105]

clearly the Navy hates you.

[Anne Lauren]

It's a government document, they're never short and to the point.

Ha Ha! No shit! (y)

[Qdrop]

maybe you're just a bad writer.

maybe.

[Anne Lauren]

maybe you're just a bad writer.

maybe.

And the government has some English teacher on their payroll, whose job it is to scan through all the e-mails being sent to people in the Navy...and revise them.

Could be. It is one possibility.

Actually, it wouldn't suprise me.

[Anne Lauren]

I would think you had some questions or questionable material in your message, or it was too long, came from an unreliable source, possibly acquired a virus/attachment?

When I was in Saudi Arabia, they didn't monitor/alter the messages I shared with my friends and family and vice versa. Obviously I didn't talk of sensitive material related to our mission, but there were times I bitched and had - ehem - "email" sex with my girlfriend, attachments were sent and recieved without scrutiny as well...

and I was assigned to the Communications Squadron!

Yeah, when my brother was over in Iraq, none of our e-mails were ever altered.

Maybe Josh is just really on some top secret mission for the government. Actually, I'm not really sure what he exactly does...like on a day-to-day basis.