Despite the random appearance of the words in the message, there are many theories that propose meanings for the messages:
* The messages are an open cipher.
* The messages are a code or the result of a method of steganography.
* The messages are an Internet equivalent of numbers stations.
A sample of one of the messages is below:
<pre>From:
Subject: Markovian parallax denigrate
Date: 1996/08/05
Message-ID: <
organization: Eke
content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ACSII
mime-version: 1.0
newsgroups: alt.religion.christian.boston-church
jitterbugging McKinley Abe break Newtonian inferring
caw update Cohen air collaborate rue
sportswriting rococo invocate tousle shadflower
Debby Stirling pathogenesis escritoire adventitious novo
ITT most chairperson Dwight Hertzog different
pinpoint dunk McKinley pendant firelight Uranus
episodic medicine ditty craggy flogging variac
brotherhood Webb impromptu file countenance inheritance
cohesion refrigerate morphine napkin inland Janeiro
nameable yearbook hark</pre>
One of the names listed in the From: line of the messages is "Susan Lindauer", the same name as a woman who was arrested on charges of espionage on March 11, 2004. To some theorists, this lends credence to the idea that the messages were a form of encoded information.
Beyond the name connection, there has been no compelling information introduced to suggest that these messages had any sort of meaning.
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