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In a recent XKCD comic, Darth Vader rediscovers the azoth: http://xkcd.com/1433/…
14 Oct 2014, 14:56
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brunians wished to post the following: --- I don't stay where I am not welcome. I will not return to the urth list. I am on facebook.…
04 Aug 2010, 20:25
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Things are getting noisy on the urth list. Please slow down! I've asked (ok, required) certain users to take a break from posting. - ranjit…
04 Aug 2010, 19:24
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Official Proclamation: top-posting, while discouraged, is not forbidden on the urth list, and is on the list of things-too-trivial-to-complain-about. Doesn't hurt to remind people…
20 Jun 2010, 22:19
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This is also officially encouraged behavior. Think of it as a bureaucratic filing system - even if the topic of discussion drifts, keeping the subject the same helps keep the thre…
08 Jun 2010, 02:37
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The urth list is getting way too busy these days, so I'm gonna lay down the law again. Please send any comments or complaints directly to me <ranjit at moonmilk.com> rather than t…
07 Jun 2010, 20:43
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Here comes the Argument From Authority! As list owner, I hereby decree: Mark Twain's forthcoming memoirs are a reasonable topic of discussion here, but don't go overboard. It's …
24 May 2010, 16:50
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My email program may have broken the link below -- if that doesn't work, try this one: http://tinyurl.com/26w2h9s And locus's site seems to be down right now anyway, but a short i…
03 May 2010, 14:56
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Forwarded from a concerned reader... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nessun Sapra Date: Mon, May 3, 2010 at 6:30 AM Subject: Gene Wolfe Hi there, I am not sure if…
03 May 2010, 14:33
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I would discourage image attachments on the urth list. They probably won't show up in the digest or in the archives, and might annoy people on slow connections or Blackberries. B…
06 Nov 2008, 22:33
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I'm starting a new thread for the music stuff so it doesn't get mixed in with the political stuff. I'll set up a space on urth.net for sharing mp3s and such, if the project takes …
06 Nov 2008, 21:32
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I don't have a car, but I might put one outside my 3rd floor window to keep vampires away. - ranjit…
06 Nov 2008, 18:01
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Jeff Wilson kindly scanned the Severian illustration from the GURPS manual, but the attachment was too large for the mailing list so I've posted it on the web site here: http://ww…
31 Oct 2008, 04:53
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Not really all that relevant, but it occurs to me that Corn would be a gender-ambiguous name in Viron. -ranjit…
19 Sep 2008, 16:05
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I'd like to ask the participants in this particular discussion thread to desist - it's drifted too far from the core topic. Feel free to continue by by email if you like. - Ranji…
21 Jul 2008, 13:45
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Is anyone else here watching the current remake of Battlestar Galactica? I was amusing myself by thinking of parallels between the cylons and the imhumi. -r…
11 Jun 2008, 18:28
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This discussion is off topic because I, as owner of the list, say so. That's authoritarianism for you! Please move on to other topics.…
13 May 2008, 15:23
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Apologies to everyone who pointed out the broken links on the urth.net homepage -- and even told me how to fix them -- over the last few months. I was overwhelmed by work, but I f…
01 Apr 2008, 15:16
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The hosting service (dreamhost) sent me a warning a few weeks ago that they were going to move the service to a new machine, and that there was a slight chance that things would br…
07 Mar 2008, 20:41
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Let this be a lesson - beware of Quechup! It's not Bryan's fault that this message went out; he probably didn't know when he signed up that Quechup automatically spams everyone in…
04 Sep 2007, 00:44
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I'm sorry, but every time I read the subject line "The problem of Cthulhu" I think of the famous song from that classic musical. How do you solve a problem like Cthulhu? H…
21 Jun 2007, 01:46
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I'll support a BotNS movie when they sign Johnny Depp as Edward Scissorhands as Severian. And, um, Steve Buscemi as Gurloes, Albus Dumbledore as Malrubius, and Sarah Silverman as …
19 Jun 2007, 20:38
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And you don't think you'd get sick of taking care of the mailing list and web site after a year or two? :) Admittedly, it hasn't been much work for me lately, but that's partly b…
15 Nov 2006, 22:39
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I've been hosting the urth mailing list (formerly whorl) for ten years now (!), and I'm afraid that for most of that time, I haven't been able to give it the attention it deserves.…
10 Nov 2006, 18:02
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I'm not going to involve myself in the administration or policy of the wolfewiki, but if the interest is there and we're ready, I can provide the domain name (wiki.urth.net or some…
08 Sep 2006, 02:06
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Look, just think of these as like Asimov's three laws of robotics. Only there's just two of them that I'm concerned with here, but bear with me: ....except where such discourageme…
02 Sep 2006, 20:48
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Here's the official word from the list owner (me!) -- Talking about the works of Gene Wolfe: GOOD Talking about matters of English usage: DISCOURAGED Talking about email formattin…
01 Sep 2006, 19:30
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I worry that I've missed some obvious counter-argument, but it seems to me that Appian and Paeon are one and the same. Roy quoted: "I knew what he was" -- he was the Autarch, pla…
28 Aug 2006, 19:05
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I can also set one up quite easily on urth.net - my hosting company gives me a big red button that says "WIKI" on it, which I need simply push. I'd be glad to do that if people ar…
03 May 2006, 14:43
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Apologies from the message from Mr Ike Collins. You can tell he's a fraud because he didn't use a Viron-style nickname. I'll try not to let any more of these get onto the list. …
10 Dec 2002, 15:34
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The Urth list is operating again. If you wrote a message in the interval, you'll have to send it again. - Ranjit…
08 Dec 2002, 19:52
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The Urth mailing list is taking a few days off, until the weekend. Please hold off on posting until then, since your messages may be lost. -- Ranjit, list operator…
05 Dec 2002, 05:47
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I should probably have restrained myself here, but you know what they say: if your maytera had Betel's nuts, she'd be your patera.…
05 Dec 2002, 05:04
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Something funny is going on with the mailing list software, and I've asked the system administrator to look into it. If you send a message that gets rejected, try again in a day o…
18 Apr 2002, 19:11
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If I remember correctly, when "Thecla" awakens in the Antechamber of the House Absolute, her hands rise to claw her eyes as she remembers who she is. I think that's also when she …
07 Mar 2002, 19:25
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I can't resist reposting this, which I wrote in '95: I was listening to k.d. lang's album "Ingenue" when I realized that the first side of the album is clearly taken from the _Bo…
02 Mar 2002, 17:03
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If I got everything working right, the mailing list archives on the web site are now updated daily. There'll be a new volume each month, and I may forget to manually update the …
17 Feb 2002, 23:35
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I finally got the mailing list archives up to date through the end of last year. I'll have recent postings up there too, as soon as I figure out how. Give me a few more weeks. …
11 Feb 2002, 04:37
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As many of you have remarked, the new Urth list's digest format appears as a series of attachments rather than a single long message. Depending on your mail software, this may be …
31 Jan 2002, 02:11
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Dear Urth and Whorl list subscribers, If this reaches you, then I have managed to bring the new Urth list online at last. Welcome! The new Urth list replaces both Urth and Whorl…
29 Jan 2002, 04:23
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The majority opinion seems to be: one list. So it shall be, when Urth is reborn. But the guy who's setting up the new list for me seems to have gone off on vacation, so if the cu…
23 Dec 2001, 17:43
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The majority opinion seems to be: one list. So it shall be, when Urth is reborn. But the guy who's setting up the new list for me seems to have gone off on vacation, so if the cu…
23 Dec 2001, 17:43
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http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001540008-2001551489,00.html…
10 Dec 2001, 22:21
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...but I don't have the details yet. Everything should be pretty much the same, except with a different email address for contributions, and slightly different commands for subscr…
07 Dec 2001, 15:38
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...but I don't have the details yet. Everything should be pretty much the same, except with a different email address for contributions, and slightly different commands for subscr…
07 Dec 2001, 15:38
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The server that hosts the Urth and Whorl mailing lists is going to be shut down next week, so I'm moving them to a new home. I'll be moving the archives too, and hopefully getting…
06 Dec 2001, 00:43
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The server that hosts the Urth and Whorl mailing lists is going to be shut down next week, so I'm moving them to a new home. I'll be moving the archives too, and hopefully getting…
06 Dec 2001, 00:43
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Back in 1987 or so I'd never heard of Wolfe, but I read the review of the Book of the New Sun in a back issue of Asimov's Magazine, so I went to Moe's (?) and found one lone used c…
21 Jul 2001, 22:04
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Feel free to take over the URTH list for Crowley discussions, if you like. It's on-topic ("New Sun and related works") and there's not much traffic there these days. And have any…
18 Apr 2001, 01:06
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Feel free to take over the URTH list for Crowley discussions, if you like. It's on-topic ("New Sun and related works") and there's not much traffic there these days. And have any…
18 Apr 2001, 01:06
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