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Headers and text of email Machado sent

On Friday, September 20th, 1996, Machado sent two, almost identical messages to 59 Asian students at UCI (University of California at Irvine), via email. The messages, with their headers, are included below. Recipients in the "To:" field have been omitted in order to protect the privacy of individual recipients. In addition, individual account names specified in the header information have been omitted.

Slight differences in the header information occur because the two messages were sent at different times, from different machines and because the headers are from two different recipients. The headers and mail were copied from poorly photocopied court records and may contain some omissions.

First message, sent Fri, 20 Sep 1996 10:54:31
Received: by mta4.nts.uci.edu id AA29475 (5.67b/IDA-1.4.4 for {ommitted}); Fri, 20 Sep 1996 10:55:18 -0700
Received: from taurus.oac.uci.edu by mta.nts.uci.edu with STMP id AA29429 (5.67b/IDA-1.4.4 for {ommitted}@uci.edu); Fri, 20 Sep 1996 10:55:12 -0700
Received: from 128.200.69.203 (labmac3.acs.uci.edu [128.200.69.203]) by taurus.oac.uci.edu (8.7.6/8.7.1) with SMTP id KAA17113; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 10:54:31 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <3242DB5F.4295@uci.edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 10:58:55 -0700
From: "Mother Fucker (Hates Asians)" <mfucker@uci.edu>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Macintosh; I; 68K)
Mime-Version: 1.0
To: {recipient list omitted to protect privacy of individuals}
Subject: FUck You Asian Shit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Hey Stupid Fucker

As you can see in the name, I hate Asians, including you. If
it weren’t for asias at UCI, it would be a much more popular campus.
You are responsible for ALL the crimes that occur on campus. YOU are
responsible for the campus being all dirt. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE. That’s
why I want you and your stupid ass comrades to get the fuck out of
UCI. IF you don’t I will hunt you down and kill your stupid
asses. Do you hear me? I personally will make it my life carreer to
find and kill everyone one of you personally. OK?????? That’s how
determined I am.

Get the fuck out,
MOther FUcker (Asian Hater)

Second Message, sent Fri 20 Sep 1996 11:14:06
Received: from ics.uci.edu by paris.ics.uci.edu id aa28498; 20 Sep 96 11:14 PDT
Received: from mta4.nts,uci.edu id AA06547 (5.67b/IDA-1.4.4 for {ommitted}@ics.uci.edu); Fri, 20 Sep 1996 11:14:59 -0700
Received: by mta4.nts.uci.edu id AA06473 (5.67b/IDA-1.4.4 for {ommitted}); Fri 20 Sep 1996 11:14:59 -0700
Received: from taurus.oac.uci.edu by mta4.nts.uci.edu with SMTP id AA06423 (5.67b/IDA-1.4.4 for {ommitted}@uci.edu); Fri, 20 Sep 1996 11:14:42 -0700
Received: from 128.200.69.200 (pmac13.acs.uci.edu [128.200.69.200]) by taurus.oac.edu (8.7.6/8.7.1) with SMTP id LAA19557; Fri 20 Sep 1996 11:14:06 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <3242DB5F.4295@uci.edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 10:58:55 -0700
From: "Mother Fucker (Hates Asians)" <mfucker@uci.edu>
To: {recipient list omitted to protect privacy of individuals}
X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Macintosh; I; 68K)
Mime-Version: 1.0
Subject: Fuck You Asian SHit

Hey Stupid Fucker

As you can see in the name, I hate Asians, including you. If
it weren’t for asias at UCI, it would be a much more popular campus.
You are responsible for ALL the crimes that occur on campus. YOU are
responsible for the campus being all dirt. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE. That’s
why I want you and your stupid ass comrades to get the fuck out of
UCI. IF you don’t I will hunt you down and kill your stupid
asses. Do you hear me? I personally will make it my life carreer to
find and kill everyone one of you personally. OK?????? That’s how
determined I am.

Get the fuck out,
MOther FUcker (Asian Hater)