For a long time now, I've been receiving spam from a particular person named Robert Lavelle. Perhaps you've received some of his missives, too. It wouldn't surprise me. I think most of the planet is on his email list.

Here's the text of his latest offering:

YOU GOT 3 MONTHS TO LIVE

Are you comfortable? Got enough food in the house?
Electricity working? Got fuel for the car?
Well come January 1, 2000 all that is going to change.
You know that little Y2K thing where many of the computers
in the world are just going to shut down on Jan 1.
Well that little problem is going to collapse all the economies
in the world. No more food, electricity, fuel, communications etc.
all those things are going to shut down like that "snap" (maybe a week or so)
and the survival of the fittest will become the law
until the antichrist takes over the world.

YOU CAN STAY HERE FOR THAT
IT'S BEST TO GET OUT OF HERE BEFORE THAT HAPPENS

BUT THE RAPTURE WILL NOT OCCUR UNTIL
THE UNIVERSE IS PROPERLY DISPLAYED

STAND UP AND OPEN YOUR MOUTH !

THE UNIVERSE SPACE ENDS & MOVES O /\ + \/ O
The discovery of the understanding of the universe.
E=MC² The equation for the atom bomb. It says that matter and energy
are the same thing. So then what is that? Matter, look at a brick. Its
in a three dimensional form. Its made of electrons, protons and neutrons
(atoms) and they are moving so the brick is moving. Energy, sunlight.
Its in a three dimensional form. It comes to us from the sun therefore
it is moving. 3D and moving Both matter and energy are 3D and moving.
I outproduce Einstein. We already know all matter has gravity. The
bending of light shows that energy also has gravity. So matter and
energy are 3D moving with gravity. The universe is made of matter,
energy, time and space. That just stated is the matter and energy part.
Time and space. Take everything in the universe and stop it. Does time
progress? No. Therefore time is the motion and the understanding of all
the motion is the understanding of all of time. Space. Space ends. Space
does not go on forever. Space is in a three dimensional form. Space
moves but does not have gravity. Space moves like this. O /\ + \/ O
And that is the understanding of time.

O This is what was first, in the beginning.
/\ This is the old kings and queens.
+ This is democracy.
\/ This is socialism.
O This is when the Lord Jesus Christ returns.

And that is the understanding of the universe. Glory be to the Father
the Son and the Holy Ghost. Revelation chapter 10&11;15-19. It is very
important the people receive this information. You may tell someone
about this.

Thank You
Robert Lavelle

The generalities of his emails change constantly, but the bit about "Space moves like this" remains constant.

But what the bloody heck does it mean???

Is this man sane? Is he emailing us from a psycho ward? Should he be?

I can tell you from experience not to bother replying if you receive one of his messages. This guy not only goes from one ISP to the next in a heartbeat, he also forges the return addresses, so your mails just bounce back undeliverable.

In the past year, I've probably received 20 emails from him, all featuring the same gobbledygook.

I've also learned that there are a lot of people named Robert Lavelle out there, and some innocent namesakes have received flame mail from irate recipients of the above spam. I pity these guys, because I suspect some of the flames have been pretty nasty.

And well they should be! I don't know about anyone else, but I find it annoying in the extreme to receive the same inane drivel nearly every other week. Sure, hitting the "delete" key is easy. But it doesn't really work. I hit that key all the time.

And Robert Lavelle is still there.

E-mail me!