CeeBee wrote:

Andrew Nowicki <andrew@nospam.com> wrote in sci.astro.seti:

If we ever
receive their message it will say something
like: "Life is absurd. Have a happy suicide."

The last message I received from them was: "we mean no harm to you earthlings". 

    That is what the US has been saying to Iraqi civilians for over a year now.

Sometimes I wonder why.

    Its what the voters back on Alpha Ceti V want to hear.

    We mean you no harm. By that we mean it is not our specific intention to cause you harm. We cannot be held responsible consequential damages which we know will happen but which we really and truly wish would not occur even though they are inevitable.