The White House recently pulled the plug on the email address that citizen informants were asked to report contents of emails and casual conversations to that disagreed with the President's Healthcare agenda.
In sending an email this morning to the address, I promptly received this notice:
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status
Notification
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
flag@whitehouse.gov
Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by
the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other
email provider for further information about the cause of
this error. The error that the other server returned was:
550 550 5.2.1 <flag@whitehouse.gov>... The email address you
just sent a message to is no longer in service.