text: Slate ' s worthless e-mail provider is displaying its characteristic incompetence ( surely not treachery--that would suggest paranoia on my part and determination and skill on theirs--not likely ) , I received no reader responses to today 's quiz , except a few that slipped through enemy lines , and those using a back channel I 'd rather not discuss .
  
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  Slate has a good e-mail provider .