OT: Dixonary player list

[Judy Madnick]

Paul, on our member list I have only your acm.org address. Please let me know exactly what you would like on that list.

 

Perhaps it's time to update our member list. For anyone who joined the Dixonary group after June 2024 and would like to be included on our player list, please send your preferred email address, phone number, and location (state if you're in the U.S. and country if you are not) to jmadnick at gmail dot com. If contact information has changed for longer-time members, please let me know. Don't reply to this message to the group address so that you're able to protect your privacy.

 

For newbies: The purpose of this list is to be able to stay in touch in the event of — well, a missing person or our inability to reach players via the Dixonary group. Once I have the updates, I will use private email to send a copy to everyone who's on the list.

NOTES (as provided by the late Dodi Schultz):
 
IF TWO ADDRESSES ARE GIVEN, use the first except if it appears to be inoperative or you are specifically instructed otherwise.
 
PHONE NUMBERS are for the eyes of this group only; are to be kept confidential (some are unpublished); and are intended solely for emergency use in the event of a player's inability to reach the group or the group's inability to reach a "missing" player by e-mail. The number after the plus sign is the country code for international dialing.  
 
TIME ZONES. It's helpful if dealers, in specifying deadlines, give them in the varying time zones in which our players reside. At the very least, please give the abbreviation of the prevailing time in your own zone-e.g., "Fri. Dec. 9, 8 a.m. EST"-so other players can calculate. Two useful sites for finding times in other areas: http://www.timeanddate.com/  worldclock/ and http://www.qlock.com/time/
 
CHANGING TIMES. Dates for observance of "daylight saving" ("summer") time, when it's an hour later by the clock, vary as follows. (Most changes occur at 2 a.m. local time, but clocks in the EU all change at once, at 1 a.m. GMT, irrespective of time zone.)
 
NORTH AMERICA: Zones from west to east are Pacific, Mountain, Central, Eastern; each is one hour later than the one before. Standard time PST, etc. Daylight saving time (PDT, etc.): second Sunday in March to first Sunday in November.
 
ENGLAND: Standard time UTC or GMT. Summer time (BST) last Sunday in March to last Sunday in October.
 
NETHERLANDS: Standard time CET. Summer time (CEST) last Sunday in March to last Sunday in October.
 
VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA: Standard time AEST. Daylight saving time (AEDT) first Sunday in October to first Sunday in April.
 
NEW ZEALAND: Standard time NZST. Daylight saving time (NZDST) last Sunday in September to first Sunday in April.

SOUTH AFRICA: SAST or GMT+2 all year around

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Original Message

From: "Paul Keating" <dixo...@boargules.com>

To: dixo...@googlegroups.com;

Date: 4/16/2026 6:45:16 AM

Subject: [Dixonary] OT: This address will stop working soon.

This address will stop working soon. I receive an unacceptable quantity of spam there, so I have had to set my spam filter to the most aggressive setting. The problem with that is, it often traps incoming fake definitions. (I suppose it’s a spam filter’s job to flag fake emails.)

For this reason, in November 2024, I set up a special dedicated email address for definitions, defin...@boargules.com, and I have been pleading with players to use that address ever since. It hasn’t worked. In every round I’ve dealt (nearly 20 of them), incoming definitions have ended up buried in spam, because players preferred to use an address from their contact list. This time around, I found four of them among the dross.

I’ve decided it’s time to give up. The address at the top of this post will stop working shortly, and after that, messages you send to it will bounce.