But from the start, people knew how to use e-mail in the name of distraction.
The report attributed to the N.D.S. had been distributed by e-mail in the name of a security firm called Metis Solutions, although its vice president, Christopher Wynes, disavowed it.
An e-mail message sent out yesterday in the name of Mr. Edwards's wife, Elizabeth, said: "If you have not read John's book yet, I urge you to do so.
More important, despite apocalyptic beliefs that appeared to entrust justice to Judgment Day rather than to worldly politics, conservative evangelicals and fundamentalists had been organizing political rallies, building mailing lists and collaborating with Catholics in the name of anti-Communism since at least the '50s.
He is owned by Modie Spiegel, who has a mail-order business in Chicago and races in the name of Alamode Farm.
He said the officers claimed to have warrants in the name of previous tenants whose mail they still sometimes receive.
Type in the name of a faculty member, and the directory spits back their address, phone number, and e-mail.
Elon Musk, Tesla's high-profile chief executive, said in an e-mail message that the names of the three employees would be withheld until their families could be notified.
Ms. Jackson has said that she used the second account because her public e-mail address was widely known and that her e-mail alias — "Richard Windsor" — derived from the name of her dog and her former home in Windsor Township, N.J.
Organizers told some members in an e-mail that "many found in our outreach that the name of our coalition had become a barrier to bringing more organizations on board".
