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  • Re: For next "Not Dundalk" Bid?

    From Gary McGath@21:1/5 to Louis Epstein on Sun Jan 9 09:37:50 2022
    On 9/18/09 8:25 PM, Louis Epstein wrote:
    http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/18/maryland.water.main.break/
    might be a handy answer to "Why Not Dundalk",if they care to
    have another Not Dundalk bid...

    -=-=-
    The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

    This 2009 post just appeared in my feed, along with several other
    years-old ones. Has this happened to anyone else?

    --
    Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com

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  • From Dorothy J Heydt@21:1/5 to garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com on Sun Jan 9 18:31:46 2022
    In article <srervu$21a$2@dont-email.me>,
    Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
    On 9/18/09 8:25 PM, Louis Epstein wrote:
    http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/18/maryland.water.main.break/
    might be a handy answer to "Why Not Dundalk",if they care to
    have another Not Dundalk bid...

    -=-=-
    The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

    This 2009 post just appeared in my feed, along with several other
    years-old ones. Has this happened to anyone else?

    Occasionally; not very often. Once a year maybe?

    Now enlighten me: what/where is/was Dundalk? I'm assuming it was
    a failed Worldcon big.

    --
    Dorothy J. Heydt
    Vallejo, California
    djheydt at gmail dot com
    Www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/

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  • From Keith F. Lynch@21:1/5 to Dorothy J Heydt on Sun Jan 9 18:45:00 2022
    Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
    Now enlighten me: what/where is/was Dundalk? I'm assuming it was a
    failed Worldcon big.

    It's a suburb of Baltimore. "Not Dundalk" was a hoax Worldcon bid in the
    '90s or '80s, I don't recall exactly when.
    --
    Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/
    Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.

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  • From Tim Merrigan@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 9 12:31:09 2022
    On Sun, 9 Jan 2022 18:31:46 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
    wrote:

    In article <srervu$21a$2@dont-email.me>,
    Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
    On 9/18/09 8:25 PM, Louis Epstein wrote:
    http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/18/maryland.water.main.break/
    might be a handy answer to "Why Not Dundalk",if they care to
    have another Not Dundalk bid...

    -=-=-
    The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

    This 2009 post just appeared in my feed, along with several other
    years-old ones. Has this happened to anyone else?

    Occasionally; not very often. Once a year maybe?

    Now enlighten me: what/where is/was Dundalk? I'm assuming it was
    a failed Worldcon big.

    I once received an e-mailed monthly newsletter from my then ISP,
    dated, both in the masthead, and the metadata, a year before I
    received it. I had received the newsletters around it at the
    appropriate times.
    --

    Qualified immuninity = virtual impunity.

    Tim Merrigan

    --
    This email has been checked for viruses by AVG.
    https://www.avg.com

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  • From Rink@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 9 23:20:49 2022
    Op 9-1-2022 om 15:37 schreef Gary McGath:
    On 9/18/09 8:25 PM, Louis Epstein wrote:
    http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/18/maryland.water.main.break/
    might be a handy answer to "Why Not Dundalk",if they care to
    have another Not Dundalk bid...

    -=-=-
    The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

    This 2009 post just appeared in my feed, along with several other
    years-old ones. Has this happened to anyone else?



    Yes, in eternal-september I saw it in 63 newsgroups.
    See newsgroup eternal-september.support


    Rink

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  • From Gary McGath@21:1/5 to Rink on Sun Jan 9 18:35:25 2022
    On 1/9/22 5:20 PM, Rink wrote:
    Op 9-1-2022 om 15:37 schreef Gary McGath:
    On 9/18/09 8:25 PM, Louis Epstein wrote:
    http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/18/maryland.water.main.break/
    might be a handy answer to "Why Not Dundalk",if they care to
    have another Not Dundalk bid...

    -=-=-
    The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

    This 2009 post just appeared in my feed, along with several other
    years-old ones. Has this happened to anyone else?



    Yes, in eternal-september I saw it in 63 newsgroups.
    See newsgroup   eternal-september.support


    I use Eternal September too. It must have been a hiccup in their servers.


    --
    Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com

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  • From Jay E. Morris@21:1/5 to Gary McGath on Sun Jan 9 22:52:27 2022
    On 1/9/2022 5:35 PM, Gary McGath wrote:
    On 1/9/22 5:20 PM, Rink wrote:
    Op 9-1-2022 om 15:37 schreef Gary McGath:
    On 9/18/09 8:25 PM, Louis Epstein wrote:
    http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/18/maryland.water.main.break/
    might be a handy answer to "Why Not Dundalk",if they care to
    have another Not Dundalk bid...

    -=-=-
    The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

    This 2009 post just appeared in my feed, along with several other
    years-old ones. Has this happened to anyone else?



    Yes, in eternal-september I saw it in 63 newsgroups.
    See newsgroup   eternal-september.support


    I use Eternal September too. It must have been a hiccup in their servers.



    Users are reporting it on other services too. Might be a news server
    that has hiccuped and started resending old messages.

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  • From Jay E. Morris@21:1/5 to Gary McGath on Sun Jan 9 22:49:59 2022
    On 1/9/2022 8:37 AM, Gary McGath wrote:
    On 9/18/09 8:25 PM, Louis Epstein wrote:
    http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/18/maryland.water.main.break/
    might be a handy answer to "Why Not Dundalk",if they care to
    have another Not Dundalk bid...

    -=-=-
    The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

    This 2009 post just appeared in my feed, along with several other
    years-old ones. Has this happened to anyone else?


    Yes. Being discussed in e-s.support. Evidently they're popping up all
    over the place. Some providers are rejecting them based on age, others (including e-s) don't have such a rule.

    I've deleted about a dozen here today.

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  • From Keith F. Lynch@21:1/5 to Jay E. Morris on Mon Jan 10 04:53:08 2022
    Jay E. Morris <morrisj@epsilon3.comcon> wrote:
    Gary McGath wrote:
    This 2009 post just appeared in my feed, along with several other
    years-old ones. Has this happened to anyone else?

    Yes. Being discussed in e-s.support. Evidently they're popping up
    all over the place. Some providers are rejecting them based on age,
    others (including e-s) don't have such a rule.

    I've deleted about a dozen here today.

    I haven't seen any here on Panix.
    --
    Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/
    Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.

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  • From Gary R. Schmidt@21:1/5 to Keith F. Lynch on Mon Jan 10 17:00:08 2022
    On 10/01/2022 15:53, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
    Jay E. Morris <morrisj@epsilon3.comcon> wrote:
    Gary McGath wrote:
    This 2009 post just appeared in my feed, along with several other
    years-old ones. Has this happened to anyone else?

    Yes. Being discussed in e-s.support. Evidently they're popping up
    all over the place. Some providers are rejecting them based on age,
    others (including e-s) don't have such a rule.

    I've deleted about a dozen here today.

    I haven't seen any here on Panix.

    Nor have I seen any via news.individual.net - they may be rejecting
    based on age.

    Cheers,
    Gary B-)

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  • From Charles Packer@21:1/5 to Jay E. Morris on Mon Jan 10 08:38:31 2022
    On Sun, 09 Jan 2022 22:49:59 -0600, Jay E. Morris wrote:

    On 1/9/2022 8:37 AM, Gary McGath wrote:
    On 9/18/09 8:25 PM, Louis Epstein wrote:
    http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/18/maryland.water.main.break/ might be a
    handy answer to "Why Not Dundalk",if they care to have another Not
    Dundalk bid...

    -=-=-
    The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

    This 2009 post just appeared in my feed, along with several other
    years-old ones. Has this happened to anyone else?


    Yes. Being discussed in e-s.support. Evidently they're popping up all
    over the place. Some providers are rejecting them based on age, others (including e-s) don't have such a rule.

    I've deleted about a dozen here today.

    Ah, so that's what's happening. I use newshosting.com and I only
    see evidence of the defunct threads when somebody here replies
    to one. Shades of "The Waveries"...

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  • From Dorothy J Heydt@21:1/5 to Gary R. Schmidt on Mon Jan 10 14:32:37 2022
    In article <4kusai-9aq.ln1@paranoia.mcleod-schmidt.id.au>,
    Gary R. Schmidt <grschmidt@acm.org> wrote:
    On 10/01/2022 15:53, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
    Jay E. Morris <morrisj@epsilon3.comcon> wrote:
    Gary McGath wrote:
    This 2009 post just appeared in my feed, along with several other
    years-old ones. Has this happened to anyone else?

    Yes. Being discussed in e-s.support. Evidently they're popping up
    all over the place. Some providers are rejecting them based on age,
    others (including e-s) don't have such a rule.

    I've deleted about a dozen here today.

    I haven't seen any here on Panix.

    Nor have I seen any via news.individual.net - they may be rejecting
    based on age.

    Moving right along, I'm still wondering what is/was Dundalk. Does
    anybody know, or is it a _hapax legomenon_?

    --
    Dorothy J. Heydt
    Vallejo, California
    djheydt at gmail dot com
    Www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/

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  • From Kevrob@21:1/5 to Keith F. Lynch on Mon Jan 10 10:36:33 2022
    On Sunday, January 9, 2022 at 1:45:02 PM UTC-5, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
    Dorothy J Heydt <djh...@kithrup.com> wrote:
    Now enlighten me: what/where is/was Dundalk? I'm assuming it was a
    failed Worldcon big.
    It's a suburb of Baltimore. "Not Dundalk" was a hoax Worldcon bid in the '90s or '80s, I don't recall exactly when.
    --

    A little far to be a suburb, according to Google Maps. :)

    https://tinyurl.com/Balt-toDunda-lk

    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    ...

    https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Baltimore,+Ballylinchy,+Co.+Cork,+Ireland/Dundalk,+Co.+Louth,+Ireland/@52.7236433,-10.1291327,7z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x4845a32d9e6ca7db:0xa00c7a99731fe20!2m2!1d-9.3661093!2d51.4843274!1m5!1m1!
    1s0x4860cc1fa4c86acb:0xa00c7a997317490!2m2!1d-6.405957!2d53.9979451!3e2

    --
    Kevin R

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  • From Dorothy J Heydt@21:1/5 to kevrob@my-deja.com on Mon Jan 10 19:39:42 2022
    In article <2c482ef5-84ff-42e1-ab1c-55e4b154dee3n@googlegroups.com>,
    Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> wrote:
    On Sunday, January 9, 2022 at 1:45:02 PM UTC-5, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
    Dorothy J Heydt <djh...@kithrup.com> wrote:
    Now enlighten me: what/where is/was Dundalk? I'm assuming it was a
    failed Worldcon big.
    It's a suburb of Baltimore. "Not Dundalk" was a hoax Worldcon bid in the
    '90s or '80s, I don't recall exactly when.
    --

    A little far to be a suburb, according to Google Maps. :)

    https://tinyurl.com/Balt-toDunda-lk

    Okay, thanks. I gather the reference is even older than the
    elderly post that started this resurrected thread.

    --
    Dorothy J. Heydt
    Vallejo, California
    djheydt at gmail dot com
    Www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/

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  • From Keith F. Lynch@21:1/5 to Dorothy J Heydt on Mon Jan 10 21:25:29 2022
    Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
    Moving right along, I'm still wondering what is/was Dundalk. Does
    anybody know, or is it a _hapax legomenon_?

    As I posted yesterday, it's a suburb of Baltimore. "Not Dundalk" was
    a hoax Worldcon bid in the '90s or '80s, I don't recall exactly when.

    Kevrob was joking when he said it was a little far to be a suburb.
    If you followed his link, it shows a map showing the distance between Baltimore, Ireland and Dundalk, Ireland. They're about as far apart
    as any two places in Ireland can be.

    I of course meant that Dundalk, Maryland was a suburb of Baltimore,
    Maryland. It was the Maryland suburb that the "Not Dundalk" Worldcon
    bid was referring to.

    Since you didn't see my post, hence might not see this one, I'm CCing
    this post to you.
    --
    Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/
    Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.

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  • From Paul Dormer@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 11 11:08:00 2022
    In article <r5I0ED.Eto@kithrup.com>, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:

    it a _hapax legomenon_?

    A phrase that went viral in the UK in 2015 when it was the answer on
    University Challenge and a contestant answered it before Jeremy Paxman
    had finished asking the question.

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  • From Jay E. Morris@21:1/5 to Jay E. Morris on Tue Jan 11 10:11:11 2022
    On 1/9/2022 10:49 PM, Jay E. Morris wrote:
    On 1/9/2022 8:37 AM, Gary McGath wrote:
    On 9/18/09 8:25 PM, Louis Epstein wrote:
    http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/18/maryland.water.main.break/
    might be a handy answer to "Why Not Dundalk",if they care to
    have another Not Dundalk bid...

    -=-=-
    The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

    This 2009 post just appeared in my feed, along with several other
    years-old ones. Has this happened to anyone else?


    Yes. Being discussed in e-s.support. Evidently they're popping up all
    over the place. Some providers are rejecting them based on age, others (including e-s) don't have such a rule.

    I've deleted about a dozen here today.

    Appears to have stopped and it seems they originated at news.freedyn.de
    a.k.a. news.dns-netz.com.

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