







Five months later, I have received essentially the exact same email.
Announcing the Centre for Cryptographic Trust Infrastructure
You’re getting this email because you subscribed to my blog posts at martin.kleppmann.com.

Dewi Erwan on Twitter / X
From this post: https://t.co/S5dR1SWbIn— Dewi Erwan (@dewierwan_) October 5, 2026
The case of the 500-mile email
The following is the 500-mile email story in the form it originally appeared, in a post to sage-members on Sun, 24 Nov 2002.:
Manton Reece - Email to SWICG about handles
A few days ago there was a discussion on the Social Web Incubator Community Group mailing list about fediverse handles. I sent an email to the list that I want to capture on my blog here.

The Emergent Self Loop
Nearly once a week I receive an email from a different stranger.

Seref on Twitter / X
your agent is negotiating with other agents in parallel, turning intent into opportunities pic.twitter.com/CBQhH1K2TC— Seref (@hyperseref) April 13, 2026
Eugen Rochko (@Gargron@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image It's the third time I am receiving what I can only generously assume to be an automated e-mail from #WSocial trying to convince me, the original founder (and still active advisor and proponent) of one of their competitors, to start posting on their platform.

Email Etiquette
You have probably been referred to this page because you've sent an email to myself or a mailing list I run, probably containing a question, which was difficult to deal with.
I Still Built It - Ewan’s Blog
if an LLM wrote a significant amount of the implementation, apparently the human directing it no longer counts.
I Still Built It — Ewan's Corner
if an LLM wrote a significant amount of the implementation, apparently the human directing it no longer counts.
Mail on atproto?! What does that even mean! Find out from out latest guests @scottlanoue.com creator of comail. youtube.com/watch?v=xEMaj7mucJc open.spotify.com/episode/125lgaTqazwySL4YcLQyX…
@bnewbold.net @graham.systems @tynanpurdy.com ? Can't remember all the humans… blog post I mentioned RE moderation: nichoth.com/projects/dev-diary-bluesky/
At Protocol, Bluesky
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