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Sid

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Jun 30, 2009, 11:59:11 AM6/30/09
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Or is this really old and I am really slow?

http://www.eternal-september.org/

Sid, yes
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Jeffrey Kaplan

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Jun 30, 2009, 2:51:19 PM6/30/09
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Previously on rec.humor.oracle.d, Sid said:

> Or is this really old and I am really slow?
>
> http://www.eternal-september.org/

Quoted from an email they sent to their subscribers a few weeks ago:

Dear users of Motzarella.org,

for technical reasons the Motzarella reader servers

news.motzarella.org,
nntp.motzarella.org,
reader.motzarella.org,
reader80.motzarella.org and
reader443.motzarella.org

will will be replaced by the following servers:

news.eternal-september.org
reader80.eternal-september.org and
reader443.eternal-september.org

on July 1, 2009.

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Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org
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seance begins offering financial advice, you're dealing with a con
artist, and not a genuine medium.

Sid

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Jun 30, 2009, 3:19:24 PM6/30/09
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On 2009-06-30 14:51:19 -0400, Jeffrey Kaplan <nom...@gordol.org> said:

> Previously on rec.humor.oracle.d, Sid said:
>
>> Or is this really old and I am really slow?
>>
>> http://www.eternal-september.org/
>
> Quoted from an email they sent to their subscribers a few weeks ago:

> will will be replaced by the following servers:


>
> news.eternal-september.org
> reader80.eternal-september.org and
> reader443.eternal-september.org
>
> on July 1, 2009.

Good stuff. I have now registered here (and dropped my 10Euro a year,
individual net subscription).

Sid
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TimC

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Jun 30, 2009, 5:00:10 PM6/30/09
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On 2009-06-30, Jeffrey Kaplan (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

> Previously on rec.humor.oracle.d, Sid said:
>
>> Or is this really old and I am really slow?
>>
>> http://www.eternal-september.org/
...

> news.motzarella.org,
> nntp.motzarella.org,
> reader.motzarella.org,
> reader80.motzarella.org and
> reader443.motzarella.org
>
> will will be replaced by the following servers:
>
> news.eternal-september.org
> reader80.eternal-september.org and
> reader443.eternal-september.org

I actually killfiled them a few months ago before realising that the
name probably implied they at least had some Clue, because they were a
source of spam.

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