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Network users can send untraceable fake e-mailthrough port 25--an "open base" or area in thenetwork used to send and receive messages-in orderto avoid detection...
...first-year student says he sends fake writemessages through port 811, a similar open base...
However, others invest more than curiosity in the subject. "It's like touching evil, getting close to it," says Thomas Jackson, 34, of Port Huron, Michigan. Like thousands of people around the world, he eagerly corresponds with murderers like Gacy and Charles Manson. Some are drawn by the temptation to redeem lost souls. Dahmer, imprisoned for life in Wisconsin, has been showered by fans with Bibles and $12,000. Richard Ramirez, California's vicious "Night Stalker" who killed 13 people and is now at San Quentin, has a devoted following of women who write and visit...
When Eric Nurse, 52, first went to sea with the fishing fleet from the port of Champneys East in Newfoundland, the cod seemed plentiful enough to last forever. Like his father and grandfather before him, Nurse returned year after year to the frigid, treacherous North Atlantic to harvest the rich waters of the Grand Banks, one of the world's most productive fishing areas...
...fishing industry began sailing into its predicament during the 1970s, when increasingly sophisticated technology enabled fleets of all sizes and nationalities to venture farther from port than ever before. Sonar and radar helped locate the fish wherever they were hiding. Satellite-navigation systems let ships return over and over to prime spots. Newly built "factory ships" deployed nets so huge that they could swallow 12 jumbo jets in a single gulp. Led by the U.S., many countries made waters up to 200 miles from their shores off limits to foreign boats. But as soon as intruding vessels drew farther...