Today's Topics:
Indigestion
Cheap mail to Europe
free pro-life litterature
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Date: 05 September 1989, 11:08:02 IST
From: WINE%ISRAEARN.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Message-ID: <8909050509.aa03074@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 05 September 1989, 11:05:01 IST
From: David Wine wine@cs.ucla.edu
To: SubGenius Digestifier SubGenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Check out _The_Divine_Supermarket_.
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Date: Tue, 5 Sep 89 17:27 EDT
From: Michael Travers <mt@MEDIA-LAB.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Indigestion
Message-ID: <19890905212738.9.MT@OUROBOROS.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Recent digests have been going out with an incorrect return address that
refers to the nonexistant host "mintaka.mc.mit.edu". The return address
on this digest should be correct. Sorry for the confusion. Go back to
sleep.
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Date: Tue, 5 Sep 89 18:03:13 EDT
From: Steve Strassmann <straz@media-lab.media.mit.edu>
Message-Id: <8909052203.AA04541@media-lab>
Subject: Cheap mail to Europe
From: <franz@ceres.inf.ethz.ch>
Subject: Non-U.S. Postal Codes -or- Cheap Mail to Europe
Quite regularly I receive mail from sources in the U.S., whose computer
systems are obviously unable to handle European-style postal codes (not
fitting the two-letter-plus-five-digit scheme).
Coming in the mail today was something new: A mass mailing from a North
Californian company, directed at my street address in
Switzerla, ND 08008 (my four-digit Swiss postal code zero extended)
I still wonder, whether the typist who entered my address that way acted
out of ignorance or in a flash of genius...
Interesting enough, the U.S. Post Office people in California must have
believed that "Switzerla" is somewhere in North Dakota. I don't think
that "Bulk Rate U.S. Postage PAID" mailings are usually transported
overseas... All other mail of this type that I receive has some extra
postage added.
This should be investigated. How about writing a letter to those friends
of yours in Germa, New York or those in Brita, Indiana... :-)
Michael Franz, Computersysteme, ETH Zurich, Switzerland +41-1-256'22'23
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Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1989 18:53-EDT
From: stucco toast <toad@cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: free pro-life litterature
Message-Id: <621039221/toad@NL.CS.CMU.EDU>
I'm not sure what was broadcasted, but around 0055 UTC on 15155 kHz on 5sep89
i heard the tail end of some Xtian sermon... approx
``For a free transcript of today's talk, and a complimentary copy of
our magazine explaining pro-life brainwashing techniques, write to us at
Pro-life perspective
419 7th St NW
Washington DC 20004
''
There you have it. I'd suggest saying something like the above; that
you just heard the tail end and didn't know the title or anything, but
it sounded interesting, and would like a copy of their drek.
Send a postcard; it's only 15cents.
... yeah, sometimes i feel morally indignant at myself
to promote such wasteful practices; weighing the possibility of
perhaps quickening their demise at the price of wasted human
effort (theirs and mine) and natural resources.
What would *you* do in a situation like this?
stuck-o
Note NEW pobox: 81795, pgh 15217-0795 (looks just like the last one!).
"You know what to do."
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