I had to laugh because when I first started poking around ELR I was mistaken for male. Why, I have no idea.
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If Feds are nosing through vape mail they could be nosing around here and other major vape forums. Does @daath screen new members?
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I would be more surprised if they were NOT nosing around all the forums.
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I don’t screen users.
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I keep seeing articles on feds and mail rooms… 
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Click-bait yabbering over what is clearly dog-and-pony-show bullshit, likely based on a non-story noted here.
Anybody who has watched US customs charades surrounding international mail (of which there arrives an absolutely staggering amount every day) for the last many years - and knows the practical as well as the legal (search warrants are involved) constraints that the “feds” operate under will recognize this as largely meaningless gesticulations made in the hopes of instilling fear. Fentanyls are largely undetectable. Cannabis oil cartridges, maybe. The pure volume of mail and the operational hassle-factors involved are formidable.
Anybody who claims otherwise should post (credible, not vacuous click-bait) information sources, (please).
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Truth is - it’s a “shallower” State than one might think. People tend to overestimate their own “importance”.
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I see some stock customs search footage, with a click bait title, to rile up the troops.
Atomizer sniffing dogs?..C’mon
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Being very high up in Boneland Security, I cannot really honestly say that I don’t have a “dog in this fight”. 
Either by land or by sea, these Cool Blooded Mercenary Mutts staunchly defend the Beloved Boneland:
Source: https://3milliondogs.com/blog-assets-two/2014/02/american_bobsled_hotdog_team1.jpg
“Hey, no big wuff”, they humbly state - but we all know better.
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I don’t see how you could screen users. Anyone can get a yahoo or gmail free account, and if you post in internet cafes or other public spaces, it would be all but impossible to know if someone’s a ne’er-do-well or a straight up fellow. And no one is going to join a forum that uses identity verification like a credit card or Real ID or something.
So it’s a good bet there’s more than one poking around. I would think a snooper would probably bring it up to deflect suspicion, actually. Hey, wait a minute @muth!!! 
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I hear that if you ask if them straight out if they are an agent of the Food Police, they like have to tell you:
Source: http://citnutritionally.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/food-police-shield_medium.jpg
… or one can then later argue “entrampment” as an exculpatory legal defense to charges of inhalation … that is, unless they are on an active undercover counter-intelligent investigation protecting deep-steak hamland security - at which point flaming marshmallow fume inhalation detoxification is strictly mandatory.
Source: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/-WEAAOxy~iJQ9vdf/s-l300.jpg
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They have special trained flavor dogs and if they find something in customs when you sign for the package flavor swat teams run out and take you away. You are forced to live for two weeks in a flavor rehabilitation unit where the blast recordings of screaming children and flash images of children dying from flavor overdoses 24/7 all while you are subjected to random electro-shock therapy sessions. Then it’s off to flavor prison where they chase you around with batons and fruits.
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Many souls have been saved, and many lung alveoli have been spared from the scourges of the nefarious sins of obsessive-compulsive pulmonary self-misuse - thanks to the “MARCOTICS” (Ministry of Aesthetic Rectitude and Conformance Operations Team Information Collection Services) Squad Re-Education Camp, where the incarcerated are duly taught by gosh and by gaslight that the immutable “DEVOID” (“Deceptively Executed Vagaries Obfuscating Intelligent Discourse”) Doctrine teaches that the CDC-sanctified vaporous diagnosis “EVALI” (“e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury”) need not have any specific markers to denote its presence - other than the stench of self-dealing, ambulance chasing moral zealotry.
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Bravo!!! Nicely done, especially in regard to the acronyms.
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Well looks like there might be a proposed Bill taxing nicotine on the Federal level…
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The e-juice we vape containing Nicotine really should be considered “Nicotine replacement therapy”, and if FDA approved as such would be exempt from the tax.
This is complete Bullshit, of course.
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US House Ways and Means Committee will be “marking up” the proposed bill on Wednesday, October 23, 2019. Introduced by Suozi (NY, Democrat), and co-sponsored by King (NY, Republican), the bill - in the spirit of legislators neither understanding, or particularly caring one whit about, scientific or clinical accuracy - the bill title “H.R. 4742, TO AMEND THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986 TO IMPOSE A TAX ON NICOTINE USED IN VAPING, ETC”, has (apparently, by amendment introduced by the chairperson of the Joint Committee on Taxation), been assigned the more sexy, sensationally hysterical sounding bill title of:
“Protecting American Lungs Act of 2019”
From the currently released bill text:
[tax rate not less than] $50.33 per 1,810 milligrams of nicotine is indeed a whole hell of a lot of taxation !
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I’ve got my lifetime of nic in the freezer. Fuck their taxes!!!
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Good for you! Just ordered 2 liters of 100mg nic a couple of weeks ago. Crazy to think the proposed total tax bill on that would be $5,561.
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