ruby

Hello all, it was my fault, ruby tricked me by sending a message from this hotmail account. The message was kept from being sent to the list because the sender is not a member of the list. As this happens quite often because members of the list use other e-mail addresses than those with which

Re: Shame on you

Phil I am sorry that you do not know me enough to conclude that I could not write a message like that. I am also sorry you could not identify the same style a certain Ruby used to assault me some months ago. I never wrote that message; I'll never write a message like that. I love this list, I

Re: bad people on the list

Dear friends First of all -- and this is more important than anything else -- I want to thank all those people who immediately gave me a credit of confidence even before hearing anything from me. Secondly, I want to thank those that did a nice detective work and clarified where the message came

red faced ruby

Hello All, I came into the studio today and found the usual weekend's worth of sundial list postings, as usual, but I was really surprised to see what most of them were about. I, however, was not taken in by the fake Fernando posting (something I learned from my recent encounter with Dr.

Re: George and Harry

Charles, Hey, mistakes are what makes the world go round! Don't worry about it. If I had a dollar for every public mistake I had made, I would be richer than Gates. I liked your conundrum. POST MORE John Dr John Pickard Senior Lecturer, Environmental Planning Graduate School of the

Imposters (DEFINITELY on topic)

Mark, WELL DONE I have sent many personal emails to Fernando, and I just could not believe that he had flamed Jim so rudely (now there is a tautology: rude flaming!). My first thought was couldn't be the Fernando I have talked with. My second was essentially the same. The imposter may

Re: Sunshine recorders

I suspect more than a tad too expensive for most of us. Besides, where's the fun in buying ready made, when one can build it for oneself? Old syle fortune tellers peered into crystal balls. Maybe there is a supplier somewhere of fortune telling accessories! Les Cowley

Re: bad people on the list

Fellow list members, If I may; back in '95 Jim Morrison was gracious enough to share a great deal of his knowledge (and some encouragement) with me when I first became interested in PostScript programming. Also, if you have ordered his personal Astrolabes and read the superb

Re: Campbell-Stokes and More

Hello Larry, In reading The Perfect Machine : Building the Palomar Telescope (see link below) I spotted mention of the telescope site committee deploying sunshine recorders at various locations to test which would be best for the scope's eventual home. Mt. Palomar, needless to say, was

Re: Good people on list

Bill wrote: Congrats to those who track down forgers, etc Bill Thayer LacusCurtius Well said Bill, I have in my drafts folder mail for Fernando(#1), Richard Mark et al all unsent as yet, and then I find you have eloquently summed up the situation ! Malcolm.

Magnetic deviation map for North America (not just US) ?

Hello dialists, I realize that this has been touched on before, but the references I saved all seem to be limited to the US. Does anyone know of a source for maps with lines of constant magnetic deviation for the entire continent? Alaska and central / western Canada are of particular interest.

Re: Sunshine recorders

Message text written by Les Cowley Old syle fortune tellers peered into crystal balls. Maybe there is a supplier somewhere of fortune telling accessories! Hmmm, presumably they will have 'foreseen' this demand already and no doubt are writing to us ;-) Patrick

excuse me Fernando

Hello Fernando, the jerk in New Mexico, and everybody else: Since I was the first person on the list to read and reply to the faux Fernando's insulting message, and not suspecting that a forger was at work, I publically denounced Fernando. Thank goodness that many of you quickly identified the

In The Interest of Science . . .

Gentlemen, Gentlemen; Please let's stop the name calling and labeling. We are all scientists to some degree as the word itself means knowledge. All of us have made mis-calculations, mis-judgements and plain old downright mistakes. In the true interest of science itself, and in that truest

Re: Lingua Australia (off topic, I guess)

John Absolutely. I do understand Australian :-) and am even able to recognize it, when spoken at least. The issue of languages is really interesting. In America, where I live now, the language is called English and its forefather is called British English, sic!, so that people do not get

Re: Lingua Australia (off topic, I guess)

John Pickard contributed Slawek, I am impressed at your command of languages. But do you speak Australian? A few years ago while tripping around Yucatan in Mexico, an expensive jeep pulled up next to me and a very well-dressed wman enquired in an American accent: Pardon me, do you speak

Sunshine recorders

Patrick Powers reports: I sent them a message and got the following reply: . Price in UK is £747 and cards are £56 / 200... A tad too expensive for me though Patrick I suspect more than a tad too expensive for most of us. Besides, where's the fun in