Okay, we now have:

1) deer (as in "deer Simon" in Unca Jeff's letter)
2) heals (as in "on my heals" in message from 4, confirmation in image in 2's profile)
3) teaming ("teaming masses" in first clue in deep---or maybe that's 'deap'...)

Any ideas about this a to e and e to a business? Reel clues or rad harrings?

BTW, any resemblance between me and a clue is purely coincidental

LOL!!
Thats cool... lol... lets start talking that way from now on... "hunt" speak... lol!

Yes, noticed them especially the "teaming" which has a specific cyberspace co-operative inference over and above a plethora of integrated circuits.

But I put it down in the end to one red herring and the idiosyncracies of the well-known author.

perhaps teaming = TEAMing or people acting as a team. Just a though... **shrugs**