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Louis Epstein

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Sep 18, 2009, 8:25:17 PM9/18/09
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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...

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Keith F. Lynch

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Sep 18, 2009, 8:30:44 PM9/18/09
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Louis Epstein <l...@main.put.com> 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...

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Gary McGath

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Jan 9, 2022, 9:37:52 AM1/9/22
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This 2009 post just appeared in my feed, along with several other
years-old ones. Has this happened to anyone else?

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Dorothy J Heydt

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Jan 9, 2022, 1:40:25 PM1/9/22
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In article <srervu$21a$2...@dont-email.me>,
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.

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Keith F. Lynch

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Jan 9, 2022, 1:45:02 PM1/9/22
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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.

Tim Merrigan

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Jan 9, 2022, 3:31:11 PM1/9/22
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On Sun, 9 Jan 2022 18:31:46 GMT, djh...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
wrote:

>In article <srervu$21a$2...@dont-email.me>,
>Gary McGath <ga...@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.

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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.
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Rink

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Jan 9, 2022, 5:20:51 PM1/9/22
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Op 9-1-2022 om 15:37 schreef Gary McGath:
Yes, in eternal-september I saw it in 63 newsgroups.
See newsgroup eternal-september.support


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Gary McGath

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Jan 9, 2022, 6:35:26 PM1/9/22
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I use Eternal September too. It must have been a hiccup in their servers.

Jay E. Morris

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Jan 9, 2022, 11:50:01 PM1/9/22
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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.

Jay E. Morris

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Jan 9, 2022, 11:52:27 PM1/9/22
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Users are reporting it on other services too. Might be a news server
that has hiccuped and started resending old messages.

Keith F. Lynch

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Jan 9, 2022, 11:53:10 PM1/9/22
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Jay E. Morris <mor...@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.

Gary R. Schmidt

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Jan 10, 2022, 1:04:07 AM1/10/22
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On 10/01/2022 15:53, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
> Jay E. Morris <mor...@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-)

Charles Packer

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Jan 10, 2022, 3:38:33 AM1/10/22
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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"...

Dorothy J Heydt

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Jan 10, 2022, 9:40:22 AM1/10/22
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In article <4kusai-...@paranoia.mcleod-schmidt.id.au>,
Moving right along, I'm still wondering what is/was Dundalk. Does
anybody know, or is it a _hapax legomenon_?

Kevrob

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Jan 10, 2022, 1:36:34 PM1/10/22
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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

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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

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Dorothy J Heydt

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Jan 10, 2022, 2:50:17 PM1/10/22
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In article <2c482ef5-84ff-42e1...@googlegroups.com>,
Kevrob <kev...@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.

Keith F. Lynch

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Jan 10, 2022, 4:25:31 PM1/10/22
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Dorothy J Heydt <djh...@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.

Paul Dormer

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Jan 11, 2022, 6:08:08 AM1/11/22
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In article <r5I0E...@kithrup.com>, djh...@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.

Jay E. Morris

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Jan 11, 2022, 11:11:15 AM1/11/22
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Appears to have stopped and it seems they originated at news.freedyn.de
a.k.a. news.dns-netz.com.
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