Things.

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_interzone.ucc.ie>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 03:39:47 GMT


Nick Brooke:
> Subject: IMPORTANT: re: Convulsion Web Sign-Ups
> Our Internet Service Provider has just told us that their CGI scripts
> are intermittently failing, due to the Unix paradigm being exceeded
> by our Convulsion Web Page. Whatever that means!

If that's a full and accurate synopsis of their technical critique, I'd have to say that it means:

  1. Your ISP are a bunch of semi-competent shysters, whose Support Services emails are produced by a Buzzphrase Generator, of a somewhat primitive sort; and
  2. I have to go retype the <term-deleted> thing, and reconstruct all the witty and salient fibs I put on the form in question a matter of weeks ago.

_Perhaps_ they're saying that your sign-up form uses some feature which isn't fully supported by their (Unix, one infers) server software, which merely begs the question of _what_ feature this might be. As your page doesn't seem to use any Funny CGI Stuff at all, just good old healthy HTML, this seems even more questionable than it otherwise might.

Fabian Kuechler writes:
> Subject: Whipstock: 3 Days of Panic and Madness-Festival

The Subject line alone was worth the pain of the Mime-encoding. (I even have a Mime-capable mailer. However, it avails me naught once the Digest software has had a bit of an old chew on such things, so I doubt many (any?) people are getting any actual benefit from things Mimey.)

Ralph Plowman, proud possessor of a pair of Morocanth thumbs, writes:
> I just got Dragon Pass (unpunched counters) through auction for $47.00

I've just had a "wish I'd bought 6" moment... (Not that I've ever seen six at once, needless to say.)

Someday soon my Gods of Glorantha will decay down to its component molecules, and the day _after_, I predict someone will report on the Digest buying/selling one for some overdraft-breaking sum of money...

Doyle Wayne Ramos-Tavener trails:
> The Gloranthan Weekly Archive, vol. 1.

Good plan, and it should double as a nostalgia-trip for some (if not most) of us as we enter old-fogeyhood. I think DWRT -- isn't that what you Dubs call the light rail network, Andrew B? ;-) -- is to be applauded for his Noble Self-Sacrifice in the required trawling. (Having disposed of most of a 2000 (!) message GD backlog [1] recently, I can testify to the size of the task being undertaken.)

Perhaps it would aid Doyle if people, at least those keen to see their names in print and with unscragged archives, re-send those gems of days of yore of their own fashioning (or maybe others too, come to that

> PS: Special thanks to Alex for our first nickname.

Special apologies for how feeble and unoriginal a tag it was, too. (Mildly embittered rants on unrelated subjects probably aren't the best mental rehearsal for this.)

Actually, the "Erik Sieurin Mostali Digest" was much more apt and amusing. (Name of perpetrator omitted to protect the fact that I forget it.)

> Hopefully, future Weeklies will include his name among our contributors.

One never knows. Be sure to set those inclusion criteria nice and low. ;-)

Ever quote-strewn,
Alex.


[1] I'd like to recommend the practice of undigesting the GD, sorting the individual messages by Sender and Size, and then clicking the "Next" button down a bunch of 6K Nick Brooke postings as fast as ones neural capacity will allow. I'd _like_ to, but... ;-)


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