Patrick Altman

President of Eldarion
Co-Founder of Amino Software
Mentor at jumpstart foundry
Advisor to gun.io

White House Pulls Informant Email

August 17, 2009

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.