RussiaGate

[barbos]

The Alpha bank thing was peculiar, however, as most of us understood, didn't prove much of anything in a bubble. If there was communication, all we'd know was there was communication, via a very suspicious manner, but we wouldn't know what it was. But with all the other circumstantial stuff that happened during the campaign and Trump's statements (and actions regarding Russia) since he won the election, it just feels wrong.

Maybe Trump did nothing wrong (now that is a statement most people are unfamiliar with), but this would have been one of the larger piles of circumstantial evidence to speak otherwise.

I don't give it any merit - it's not just peculiar, it implies some clumsy home-grown solution was used which would require more effort to build than any number of free or commercial tools that wouldn't openly advertise a connection with unencrypted traffic. Most likely Alfa has a reverse-DNS lookup on incoming emails and isn't caching the lookup.

That sounds reasonable, however, if that is true:

1) Why did it stop when asked about it and get swapped over to another name
2) And when asked again, it was terminated

Because they did not like publicity? after all these are spammers.

And we don't know if any of that actually happened. In fact we can't even be sure that the whole story is not 100% fabrication, because people who supposedly "discovered" it are anonymous, that is unknown to anybody except authors of the article.
But the main thing is which pisses me off is the fact that these supposed experts which were mentioned in the article surely knew all that and should have called it BS in no time, but they did not, Makes you wonder why.