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Retronym?

Started by"Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net>
First post2026-07-18 20:11 +0000
Last post2026-07-27 12:56 +0200
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  Retronym? "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-07-18 20:11 +0000
    Re: Retronym? ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-07-18 20:36 +0000
    Re: Retronym? "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> - 2026-07-18 18:49 -0400
    Re: Retronym? Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> - 2026-07-18 16:00 -0700
      Re: Retronym? "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-07-19 02:18 +0000
        Re: Retronym? Phil <phil@anonymous.invalid> - 2026-07-19 10:16 +0100
          Re: Retronym? occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-07-19 14:01 +0200
            Re: Retronym? "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> - 2026-07-19 08:05 -0400
              Re: Retronym? Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2026-07-23 22:09 -0400
                Re: Retronym? Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> - 2026-07-24 07:41 +0000
            Re: Retronym? Phil <phil@anonymous.invalid> - 2026-07-19 13:50 +0100
              Re: Retronym? The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.comNOSPAM> - 2026-07-19 08:59 -0400
                Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-20 00:53 +0000
              Re: Retronym? Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-07-19 15:09 +0200
              Re: Retronym? "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-07-19 13:50 +0000
                Re: Retronym? Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-07-19 19:36 +0200
              Re: Retronym? Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2026-07-23 22:10 -0400
          Re: Retronym? Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-19 13:50 +0100
          Re: Retronym? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-19 15:47 +0200
            Re: Retronym? Phil <phil@anonymous.invalid> - 2026-07-19 16:47 +0100
              Re: Retronym? Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-07-19 19:39 +0200
            Re: Retronym? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2026-07-19 20:41 +0100
              Re: Retronym? kfl@panix.com (Keith F. Lynch) - 2026-07-19 20:22 +0000
                Re: Retronym? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2026-07-20 12:51 +0100
              Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-20 00:55 +0000
              Re: Retronym? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-20 11:27 +0200
                Re: Retronym? "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-07-20 14:42 +0000
                  Re: Retronym? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-20 17:41 +0200
                    Re: Retronym? athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-07-20 17:04 +0000
                      Re: Retronym? "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-07-20 17:25 +0000
                      Re: Retronym? Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-21 06:42 +0100
                        Re: Retronym? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-21 08:38 +0200
                          Re: Retronym? Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-21 08:03 +0100
                            Re: Retronym? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-22 08:36 +0200
                              Re: Retronym? Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-22 10:27 +0100
                          Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-21 12:24 +0200
                        Re: Retronym? "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-07-21 19:07 +0000
                          Re: Retronym? Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-22 06:47 +0100
                            Re: Retronym? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-22 08:53 +0200
                              Re: Retronym? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-07-22 17:05 +1000
                                Re: Retronym? Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-22 10:09 +0100
                                  Re: Retronym? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-07-22 20:40 +1000
                                  Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-26 23:11 +0200
                                    Re: Retronym? Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2026-07-27 01:16 +0100
                                      Re: Retronym? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-07-27 10:33 +1000
                                        Re: Retronym? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2026-07-28 13:00 +0100
                                      Re: Retronym? Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-07-27 09:05 +0200
                                      Re: Retronym? liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-07-27 10:57 +0100
                                        Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-28 21:05 +0200
                                          Re: Retronym? richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-07-28 19:23 +0000
                                            Re: Retronym? Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2026-07-28 22:17 +0100
                                              Re: Retronym? Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> - 2026-07-29 21:46 +1200
                                                Re: Retronym? Madhu <enometh@meer.net> - 2026-07-30 06:30 +0530
                                                  Re: Retronym? Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> - 2026-07-30 17:33 +1200
                                                    Re: Retronym? Madhu <enometh@meer.net> - 2026-07-30 18:07 +0530
                                                    Re: Retronym? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2026-07-30 13:55 +0100
                                            Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-28 23:34 +0200
                                              Re: Retronym? Madhu <enometh@meer.net> - 2026-07-30 06:39 +0530
                                          Re: Retronym? Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> - 2026-07-29 13:48 +1200
                                      Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-28 21:05 +0200
                              Re: Retronym? "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-07-22 15:06 +0000
                                Re: Retronym? athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-07-22 15:50 +0000
                                  Re: Retronym? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-07-23 16:26 +1000
                                Re: Retronym? Rich Ulrich <rich.ulrich@comcast.net> - 2026-07-22 13:11 -0400
                                Re: Retronym? Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2026-07-22 11:39 -0700
                                  Re: Retronym? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-07-23 16:52 +1000
                                    Re: Retronym? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2026-07-24 16:28 +0100
                                      Re: Retronym? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-07-25 10:02 +1000
                                  Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-23 23:43 +0200
                                Re: Retronym? Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-23 06:25 +0100
            Re: Retronym? Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2026-07-19 12:52 -0700
        Re: Retronym? kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-07-19 07:50 -0400
        Re: Retronym? The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.comNOSPAM> - 2026-07-19 08:55 -0400
          Re: Retronym? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2026-07-19 19:59 +0000
            Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-20 00:00 +0000
              Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-20 10:13 +0200
                Re: Retronym? kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-07-20 15:22 -0400
            Re: Retronym? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-07-20 13:29 +1000
        Re: Retronym? Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> - 2026-07-19 11:52 -0700
          Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-19 23:58 +0000
            Re: Retronym? kfl@panix.com (Keith F. Lynch) - 2026-07-20 01:56 +0000
              Re: Retronym? Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2026-07-19 19:23 -0700
                Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-20 10:13 +0200
                  Re: Retronym? Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2026-07-20 06:37 -0700
                    Re: Retronym? "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> - 2026-07-20 09:58 -0400
                      Re: Retronym? "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-07-20 14:18 +0000
                        Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-20 22:58 +0000
              Re: Retronym? prd@pauldormer.cix.co.uk (Paul Dormer) - 2026-07-20 16:30 +0100
                Re: Retronym? "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-07-20 17:19 +0000
                  Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-20 22:56 +0000
                  Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-21 12:24 +0200
                    Re: Retronym? athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-07-21 11:54 +0000
                    Re: Retronym? "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-07-21 12:01 +0000
                      Re: Retronym? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2026-07-21 13:28 +0100
                        Re: Retronym? "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-07-21 18:57 +0000
                          Re: Retronym? Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2026-07-21 12:57 -0700
                            Re: Retronym? Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2026-07-21 12:59 -0700
                              Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-21 22:42 +0200
                                Re: Retronym? Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2026-07-22 20:10 +0100
                                  Re: Retronym? "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-07-22 21:23 +0000
                                    Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-23 10:56 +0200
                                  Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-23 10:56 +0200
                          Re: Retronym? athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-07-22 07:31 +0000
                            Re: Retronym? "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-07-22 17:12 +0000
                              Re: Retronym? Silvano <Silvano@noncisonopernessuno.it> - 2026-07-22 20:14 +0200
                                Re: Retronym? "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-07-22 21:48 +0000
                                  Re: Retronym? Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-23 06:43 +0100
                          Re: Retronym? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2026-07-22 12:23 +0100
                          Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-27 11:33 +0200
            Re: Retronym? Rich Ulrich <rich.ulrich@comcast.net> - 2026-07-20 14:46 -0400
              Re: Retronym? Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2026-07-20 17:37 -0700
                Re: Retronym? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-21 09:07 +0200
                Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-21 12:24 +0200
              Re: Retronym? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-21 08:48 +0200
                Re: Retronym? "Anders D. Nygaard" <news2012adn@google.com> - 2026-07-21 11:59 +0200
                  Re: Retronym? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-22 09:21 +0200
                    Re: Retronym? "Anders D. Nygaard" <news2012adn@google.com> - 2026-07-23 00:36 +0200
                      Re: Retronym? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-23 06:52 +0200
                        Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-08-03 10:41 +0200
                    Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-22 22:58 +0000
                      Re: Retronym? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-23 06:55 +0200
                        Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-23 05:47 +0000
                          Re: Retronym? Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> - 2026-07-23 00:19 -0700
                            Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-23 23:20 +0000
                            Re: Retronym? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-24 06:44 +0200
                              Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-24 07:13 +0000
                                Re: Retronym? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-24 15:54 +0200
                                  Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-25 02:15 +0000
                                    Re: Retronym? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-25 17:26 +0200
                                      Re: Retronym? Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2026-07-25 13:28 -0400
                                        Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-25 22:45 +0000
                                        Re: Retronym? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-26 15:30 +0200
                                      Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-25 22:41 +0000
                                        Re: Retronym? Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2026-07-25 21:21 -0400
                                          Re: Retronym? Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2026-07-25 21:58 -0400
                                            Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-26 02:38 +0000
                                          Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-26 02:37 +0000
                                            Re: Retronym? Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2026-07-26 12:34 -0400
                                              Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-26 23:14 +0000
                                                Re: Retronym? Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> - 2026-08-03 20:58 +0100
                                                  Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-08-04 02:58 +0000
                                                    Re: Retronym? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2026-08-04 05:01 +0000
                                                      Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-08-04 06:45 +0000
                                                      Re: Retronym? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-08-04 16:53 +1000
                                                        Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-08-04 08:35 +0000
                                                        Re: Retronym? Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> - 2026-08-04 10:49 -0700
                                                          Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-08-05 00:41 +0000
                                                        Re: Retronym? kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-08-04 20:29 -0400
                                                          Re: Retronym? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2026-08-07 01:50 -0300
                                                    Re: Retronym? Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> - 2026-08-04 10:45 -0700
                                                      Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-08-05 00:43 +0000
                                                        Re: Retronym? "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> - 2026-08-05 07:01 -0400
                                                          Re: Retronym? Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> - 2026-08-05 11:42 -0700
                                                          Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-08-06 06:50 +0000
                                                    Re: Retronym? kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-08-04 20:27 -0400
                                                  Re: Retronym? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-08-04 14:34 +1000
                                                  Re: Retronym? Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-08-04 09:22 +0100
                                                    Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-08-04 08:40 +0000
                                                      Re: Retronym? Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-08-04 10:43 +0100
                                                        Re: Retronym? Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-08-04 11:09 +0100
                                                      Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-08-05 22:13 +0000
                                              Re: Retronym? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-27 05:01 +0200
                                    Re: Retronym? kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-07-25 13:32 -0400
                              Re: Retronym? Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> - 2026-07-24 19:31 -0700
                          Re: Retronym? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-23 13:52 +0200
                            Re: Retronym? "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> - 2026-07-23 08:25 -0400
                              Re: Retronym? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-07-23 23:16 +1000
                                Re: Retronym? "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> - 2026-07-23 14:20 -0400
                                  Re: Retronym? "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-07-23 19:19 +0000
                                    Re: Retronym? Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> - 2026-07-24 07:51 +0000
                                      Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-25 02:17 +0000
                Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-22 01:30 +0000
                  Re: Retronym? kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-07-21 21:49 -0400
                Re: Retronym? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2026-07-22 12:21 +0100
                  Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-22 23:01 +0000
                    Re: Retronym? "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-07-23 00:36 +0000
                  Re: Retronym? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-07-23 17:16 +1000
                    Re: Retronym? Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-07-23 10:10 +0200
                      Re: Retronym? Rich Ulrich <rich.ulrich@comcast.net> - 2026-07-23 09:44 -0400
                      Re: Retronym? Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2026-07-23 20:55 +0100
          Re: Retronym? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-20 17:06 +0200
            Re: Retronym? "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> - 2026-07-20 11:20 -0400
              Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-20 22:53 +0000
            Re: Retronym? "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-07-20 17:16 +0000
      Re: Retronym? Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> - 2026-07-19 18:37 +1200
      Re: Retronym? richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-07-19 09:47 +0000
        Re: Retronym? Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> - 2026-07-19 12:04 -0700
        Re: Retronym? rcpj@panix.com (Pierre Jelenc) - 2026-07-19 19:47 +0000
          Re: Retronym? richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-07-20 09:27 +0000
            Re: Retronym? rcpj@panix.com (Pierre Jelenc) - 2026-07-20 19:38 +0000
          Re: Retronym? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-20 17:10 +0200
      Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-19 12:06 +0200
    Re: Retronym? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-19 06:10 +0200
      Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-19 08:11 +0000
        Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-19 12:06 +0200
          Re: Retronym? kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-07-19 07:51 -0400
            Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-19 21:54 +0200
          Re: Retronym? "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-07-19 20:34 +0000
            Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-19 23:32 +0200
              Re: Retronym? Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com> - 2026-07-19 19:44 -0400
                Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-20 00:48 +0000
              Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-19 23:47 +0000
                Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-20 10:13 +0200
                  Re: Retronym? "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> - 2026-07-20 06:38 -0400
                    Re: Retronym? "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-07-20 11:07 +0000
                      Re: Retronym? "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> - 2026-07-20 07:20 -0400
                        Re: Retronym? "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-07-20 14:33 +0000
                          Re: Retronym? Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com> - 2026-07-20 11:31 -0400
                            Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-21 11:28 +0200
                          Re: Retronym? Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> - 2026-07-20 12:50 -0700
                            Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-20 23:02 +0000
                              Re: Retronym? Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> - 2026-07-21 07:43 +0000
                                Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-22 01:31 +0000
                                  Re: Retronym? kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-07-21 21:50 -0400
                                  Re: Retronym? Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> - 2026-07-22 07:55 +0000
                                    Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-22 23:02 +0000
                                      Re: Retronym? Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> - 2026-07-23 07:29 +0000
                                        Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-23 23:23 +0000
                                          Re: Retronym? Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> - 2026-07-24 07:56 +0000
                                            Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-25 02:20 +0000
                                              Re: Retronym? Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> - 2026-07-25 07:38 +0000
                                                Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-25 22:47 +0000
                                                  Re: Retronym? Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2026-07-25 20:59 -0400
                                                    Re: Retronym? Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2026-07-25 21:34 -0400
                                                      Re: Retronym? Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2026-07-25 21:59 -0400
                                                        Re: Retronym? Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2026-07-26 00:00 -0400
                                                          Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-26 05:43 +0000
                                                    Re: Retronym? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-07-26 11:54 +1000
                                                      Re: Retronym? Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> - 2026-07-26 07:55 +0000
                                                        Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-26 23:18 +0000
                                                          Re: Retronym? kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-07-26 19:39 -0400
                                                            Re: Retronym? danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> - 2026-07-26 23:44 +0000
                                                  Re: Retronym? kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-07-26 08:17 -0400
                                                    Tomato Plants "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> - 2026-07-26 08:55 -0400
                                                      Re: Tomato Plants ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-07-26 14:02 +0000
                                                        Re: Tomato Plants athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-07-26 16:47 +0000
                                                      Re: Tomato Plants kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-07-26 10:35 -0400
                                                        Re: Tomato Plants "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> - 2026-07-26 10:55 -0400
                                                          Re: Tomato Plants kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-07-26 11:01 -0400
                                                            Re: Tomato Plants "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> - 2026-07-26 11:36 -0400
                                                              Re: Tomato Plants kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-07-26 19:31 -0400
                                                                Re: Tomato Plants djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2026-07-27 06:24 +0000
                                                                  Re: Tomato Plants "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> - 2026-07-27 08:11 -0400
                                                                    Re: Tomato Plants athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-07-27 14:02 +0000
                                                                    Re: Tomato Plants Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2026-07-27 13:06 -0400
                                                                      Re: Tomato Plants Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-27 23:25 +0000
                                                                        Re: Tomato Plants Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-28 03:12 +0000
                                                                          Re: Tomato Plants Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2026-07-28 00:21 -0400
                                                                          Re: Tomato Plants kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-07-28 08:10 -0400
                                                                            Re: Tomato Plants Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2026-07-28 08:46 -0400
                                                                            Re: Tomato Plants Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> - 2026-07-28 14:49 +0100
                                                                              Re: Tomato Plants Silvano <Silvano@noncisonopernessuno.it> - 2026-07-28 23:17 +0200
                                                                                Re: Tomato Plants wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) - 2026-07-28 22:36 +0000
                                                                                  Re: Tomato Plants Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2026-07-28 21:14 -0400
                                                                                    Re: Tomato Plants Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> - 2026-07-30 11:44 +0100
                                                                                Re: Tomato Plants Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-07-29 07:10 +0200
                                                                            Re: Tomato Plants Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-28 20:33 +0200
                                                                              Re: Tomato Plants kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-07-28 17:08 -0400
                                                                                Re: Tomato Plants Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2026-07-28 19:47 -0400
                                                                                  Re: Tomato Plants djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2026-07-29 02:19 +0000
                                                                                    Re: Tomato Plants Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-07-29 17:55 +1000
                                                                                    Re: Tomato Plants kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-07-29 17:22 -0400
                                                                                      Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-07-29 21:36 +0000
                                                                                        Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-07-29 19:59 -0400
                                                                                        Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2026-07-29 20:17 -0400
                                                                                        Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2026-07-30 00:37 +0000
                                                                                          Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> - 2026-07-29 20:48 -0400
                                                                                          Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-07-30 00:54 +0000
                                                                                            Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-07-29 21:49 -0400
                                                                                              Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-07-30 03:57 +0000
                                                                                                Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-30 04:39 +0000
                                                                                                  Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-30 06:49 +0100
                                                                                                    Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2026-07-30 19:20 +0000
                                                                                                      Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-30 22:04 +0000
                                                                                                        Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2026-07-30 23:31 +0000
                                                                                                        Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> - 2026-07-30 19:02 -0700
                                                                                                        Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-07-30 22:03 -0400
                                                                                                          Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2026-07-31 04:44 +0000
                                                                                                          Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-07-31 16:46 +1000
                                                                                                            Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-31 08:09 +0100
                                                                                                              Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2026-07-31 13:04 -0400
                                                                                                            Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-07-31 09:27 +0200
                                                                                                              Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) "Anders D. Nygaard" <news2012adn@google.com> - 2026-07-31 22:29 +0200
                                                                                                                Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-07-31 23:38 +0200
                                                                                                                  Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2026-07-31 19:26 -0400
                                                                                                                    Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-07-31 23:48 +0000
                                                                                                                      Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-08-01 08:10 +0200
                                                                                                                      Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-08-01 10:50 -0400
                                                                                                                        Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-08-01 21:15 +0000
                                                                                                                          Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-08-01 20:40 -0400
                                                                                                                            Neutrinos (waas Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants)) "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-08-04 15:42 +0000
                                                                                                                              Re: Neutrinos (waas Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants)) kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-08-05 09:16 -0400
                                                                                                                                Re: Neutrinos (was Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants)) "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-08-05 13:30 +0000
                                                                                                                                  Re: Neutrinos (was Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants)) Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-08-05 17:30 +0200
                                                                                                                                    Re: Neutrinos (was Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants)) "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-08-05 15:35 +0000
                                                                                                                                      Re: Neutrinos (was Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants)) Rich Ulrich <rich.ulrich@comcast.net> - 2026-08-05 18:05 -0400
                                                                                                                                  Re: Neutrinos (was Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants)) prd@pauldormer.cix.co.uk (Paul Dormer) - 2026-08-05 16:49 +0100
                                                                                                                                    Re: Neutrinos (was Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants)) "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2026-08-05 17:06 +0100
                                                                                                                                    Re: Neutrinos (was Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants)) "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-08-05 18:23 +0000
                                                                                                                                    Re: Neutrinos (was Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants)) Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-08-06 10:42 +1000
                                                                                                                              Re: Neutrinos (waas Re: Life Insurance nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-08-05 22:22 +0200
                                                                                                                          Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2026-08-01 22:52 -0400
                                                                                                                      Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Radey Shouman <shouman@comcast.net> - 2026-08-03 13:05 -0400
                                                                                                                    Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2026-07-31 20:22 -0400
                                                                                                                      Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2026-07-31 20:52 -0400
                                                                                                                    Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-08-01 08:08 +0200
                                                                                                                      Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2026-08-01 10:43 -0400
                                                                                                                        Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2026-08-01 16:05 +0100
                                                                                                                          Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2026-08-01 12:04 -0700
                                                                                                                            Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2026-08-01 15:38 -0400
                                                                                                                        Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-08-02 10:05 +1000
                                                                                                                        Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-08-02 09:40 +0200
                                                                                                                          Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2026-08-02 10:24 -0400
                                                                                                                            Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-08-02 18:23 +0200
                                                                                                                              Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2026-08-02 13:29 -0400
                                                                                                                                Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-08-02 21:57 +0200
                                                                                                                                  Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2026-08-02 16:33 -0400
                                                                                                                            Re: Life Insurance nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-08-02 21:53 +0200
                                                                                                                        Re: Life Insurance liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-08-09 11:03 +0100
                                                                                                                Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-08-01 09:27 +1000
                                                                                                                  Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-08-01 08:14 +0200
                                                                                                                Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Rich Ulrich <rich.ulrich@comcast.net> - 2026-08-01 01:00 -0400
                                                                                                                  Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-08-01 10:54 -0400
                                                                                                                Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-08-01 10:47 -0400
                                                                                                                Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-08-02 10:14 +1000
                                                                                                                Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) - 2026-08-02 00:57 +0000
                                                                                                          Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2026-07-31 13:03 -0400
                                                                                                            Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-07-31 19:31 +0200
                                                                                                              Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2026-07-31 15:38 -0400
                                                                                                            Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Someone Else <SueDominus@example.com.invalid> - 2026-08-01 00:56 -0400
                                                                                                              Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-08-01 08:17 +0200
                                                                                                                Death Row Exonerations "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> - 2026-08-01 06:52 -0400
                                                                                                                  Re: Death Row Exonerations "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-08-01 11:43 +0000
                                                                                                                    Re: Death Row Exonerations Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-08-02 10:23 +1000
                                                                                                                      Re: Death Row Exonerations Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-08-02 05:50 +0200
                                                                                                        Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-31 06:01 +0200
                                                                                                        Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-07-31 09:23 +0200
                                                                                                      Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-07-30 22:15 +0000
                                                                                                        Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-31 07:29 +0000
                                                                                                          Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2026-07-31 18:59 +0000
                                                                                                      Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Someone Else <SueDominus@example.com.invalid> - 2026-07-30 19:17 -0400
                                                                                                      Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-07-31 09:23 +0200
                                                                                                        Re: Life Insurance (was Re: Tomato Plants) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-31 07:27 +0000
                                                                                              Re: Life Insurance nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-31 09:57 +0200
                                                                        Re: Tomato Plants Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2026-07-27 20:13 -0400
                                                                        Re: Tomato Plants Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-07-28 07:32 +0200
                                                                    Re: Tomato Plants Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-27 19:10 +0100
                                                                  Re: Tomato Plants kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-07-27 09:33 -0400
                                                            Re: Tomato Plants Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2026-07-26 12:43 -0400
                                                            Re: Tomato Plants Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> - 2026-07-26 12:59 -0700
                                                          Re: Tomato Plants Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-26 23:17 +0000
                                                            Re: Tomato Plants liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-07-27 10:57 +0100
                                                              Re: Tomato Plants Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-27 23:21 +0000
                                                                Re: Tomato Plants liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-07-28 09:21 +0100
                                                      Re: Tomato Plants athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-07-26 16:46 +0000
                                                  Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-27 11:33 +0200
                                                    Re: Retronym? athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-07-27 10:35 +0000
                                                      Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-28 21:42 +0200
                                                        Re: Retronym? richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-07-28 19:57 +0000
                                                          Suing News Organizations "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> - 2026-07-28 16:27 -0400
                                                          Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-28 23:34 +0200
                                                            Re: Retronym? Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2026-07-28 19:28 -0400
                                                              Re: Retronym? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-07-29 11:15 +1000
                                                              Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-29 11:35 +0200
                                                                Re: Retronym? Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2026-07-29 09:49 -0400
                        Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-20 23:01 +0000
                          Re: Retronym? Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-07-21 09:19 +1000
                            Re: Retronym? "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> - 2026-07-20 19:33 -0400
        Re: Retronym? "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> - 2026-07-19 07:03 -0400
        Re: Retronym? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-19 15:56 +0200
          Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-19 21:54 +0200
            Re: Retronym? Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com> - 2026-07-19 19:46 -0400
              Re: Retronym? Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> - 2026-07-21 07:56 +0000
            Re: Retronym? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-20 17:15 +0200
              Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-21 11:28 +0200
                Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-22 01:33 +0000
                  Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-22 23:12 +0200
                    Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-22 23:04 +0000
                      Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-23 10:56 +0200
                        Re: Retronym? Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> - 2026-07-23 05:21 -0700
                        Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-24 01:19 +0000
                          Re: Retronym? kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-07-24 18:03 -0400
    Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-19 04:58 +0000
      Re: Retronym? rcpj@panix.com (Pierre Jelenc) - 2026-07-19 19:49 +0000
        Re: Retronym? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-19 23:07 +0200
        Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-19 23:49 +0000
    Re: Retronym? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-27 01:13 +0000
      Calendars "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> - 2026-07-26 21:30 -0400
        Re: Calendars "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-07-27 02:20 +0000
          Re: Calendars Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-27 05:24 +0200
          Re: Calendars Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-27 05:38 +0000
            Re: Calendars nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-27 11:33 +0200
              Re: Calendars richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-07-27 10:37 +0000
            Re: Calendars Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-27 12:52 +0200
              Re: Calendars Someone Else <SueDominus@example.com.invalid> - 2026-07-27 21:39 -0400
              Re: Calendars Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-27 23:29 +0000
                Re: Calendars nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-28 10:29 +0200
                  Re: Calendars "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> - 2026-07-28 06:44 -0400
                    Re: Calendars Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-28 20:35 +0200
                  Re: Calendars richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-07-28 18:05 +0000
          Re: Calendars nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-27 11:33 +0200
            Re: Calendars Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-07-27 20:36 +1000
              Re: Calendars kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-07-27 09:34 -0400
                Re: Calendars athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-07-27 14:05 +0000
              Re: Calendars Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-07-28 10:55 +1000
                Re: Calendars nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-28 13:59 +0200
                  Re: Calendars Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-28 22:44 +0000
                    Re: Calendars kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-07-28 19:12 -0400
                      Prophecy "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> - 2026-07-28 19:39 -0400
              Re: Calendars Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-27 23:28 +0000
                Re: Calendars richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-07-28 18:12 +0000
                  Re: Calendars Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-28 22:46 +0000
              Re: Calendars "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-07-31 23:53 +0000
                Re: Calendars "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> - 2026-07-31 20:05 -0400
                  Re: Calendars Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-08-01 11:13 +1000
                    Genealogy of Joseph "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> - 2026-08-01 06:47 -0400
                      Re: Genealogy of Joseph Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-08-01 21:08 +1000
                      Re: Genealogy of Joseph prd@pauldormer.cix.co.uk (Paul Dormer) - 2026-08-01 12:34 +0100
                        Re: Genealogy of Joseph kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-08-01 10:56 -0400
                          Re: Genealogy of Joseph "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-08-01 16:07 +0000
                            Re: Genealogy of Joseph "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> - 2026-08-01 12:26 -0400
                              Re: Genealogy of Joseph "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-08-01 20:57 +0000
                    Re: Calendars richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-08-01 13:08 +0000
                  Re: Calendars Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-08-02 08:31 +0000
                Re: Calendars Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> - 2026-08-01 07:25 +0000
                  Re: Calendars Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> - 2026-08-01 07:31 +0000
                Re: Calendars Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-08-02 08:30 +0000
                  Re: Calendars Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-08-02 11:41 +0200
                    Re: Calendars nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-08-02 12:28 +0200
                    Re: Calendars Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-08-03 05:45 +0000
                      Re: Calendars Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-08-03 15:30 +0200
                        Re: Calendars nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-08-03 21:21 +0200
                  Re: Calendars nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-08-02 11:45 +0200
                  Re: Calendars Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> - 2026-08-02 12:41 -0700
                    Re: Calendars "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2026-08-02 19:49 +0000
                      Re: Calendars Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-08-02 21:59 +0200
                        Re: Calendars "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2026-08-02 22:07 +0100
                          Re: Calendars nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-08-03 10:41 +0200
                      Re: Calendars Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-08-02 22:03 +0200
                      Re: Calendars kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-08-02 16:40 -0400
                        Re: Calendars "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2026-08-02 22:09 +0100
                          Re: Calendars nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-08-03 10:41 +0200
                    Re: Calendars Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-08-03 05:47 +0000
                      Re: Calendars Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-08-03 16:04 +1000
            Re: Calendars Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-27 12:56 +0200

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#1147372

From"Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net>
Date2026-07-22 15:06 +0000
Message-ID<113qm9p$fs8$1@reader1.panix.com>
In reply to#1147337
Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:
>> "The circulation pattern quarantines the Northern and Southern
>> Hemispheres, keeping the pollutant-laden northern air dirty and the
>> southern air clean.  There is some exchange between the two, but
>> the process takes a year or two, versus about a week for air to
>> circulate within a hemisphere" -
>> <https://www.abc.net.au/science/archive/articles/2008/09/29/2377123.htm>

For worst results, be sure to build *two* doomsday devices, one in
each hemisphere, wired so that if either goes off so does the other.

Of course the original idea was that a single doomsday device would be
set up to automatically go off if it detects a nuclear war anywhere on
Earth.  That would effectively deter all possible nuclear wars, hence
would keep the world safe.  Nothing about that plan could possibly go
wrong.

Fortunately, for some reason no doomsday device was ever built.  Maybe
because enough people watched Dr. Strangelove and similar movies.

> Another similar dystopian novel, on the other hand -- Down to
> a Sunless Sea -- suggested that a refugee plane that headed to
> Antarctica was overtaken by radioactive fallout soon after arriving
> there.

There's something called the logistic curve.  It's the integral of its
more famous cousin, the bell curve.  It implies that for every person
who dies because he slipped and hit his head and drowned in his cat's
water dish, there's another who survived more than a year floating
alone across the Pacific Ocean.  For every person who dies because
he fell out of his chair, there's another who survived falling tens
of thousands of feet without a parachute.  For every person who is
frightened to death by a harmless Halloween prank, another person
survived both the Holodomor and the Holocaust.  For every person who
was killed by a routine chest X-ray, another survived both the
Hiroshima and the Nagasaki nukes.

Our species has survived countless plagues, wars, famines, invasions,
crimes, evil governments, and natural disasters.  Not to mention the
Ice Age and the Black Death.  It would take a *really* bad day to make
us go extinct.

If Project Sundial had ever been built, and had gone off, I have no
doubt that we would have survived.  Not all of us, but some of us.
Maybe like in Stapledon's wonderful 1931 novel _Last and First Men_,
few enough that the survivors gave rise to a new human species.  In
that novel -- which is now finally in the public domain hence can be
read online for free -- this sort of thing happens 18 times over the
next two billion years.
-- 
Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/
Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.

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#1147373

Fromathel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid>
Date2026-07-22 15:50 +0000
Message-ID<1784735405-12588@newsgrouper.org>
In reply to#1147372
"Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> posted:

> Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:
> >> "The circulation pattern quarantines the Northern and Southern
> >> Hemispheres, keeping the pollutant-laden northern air dirty and the
> >> southern air clean.  There is some exchange between the two, but
> >> the process takes a year or two, versus about a week for air to
> >> circulate within a hemisphere" -
> >> <https://www.abc.net.au/science/archive/articles/2008/09/29/2377123.htm>
> 
> For worst results, be sure to build *two* doomsday devices, one in
> each hemisphere, wired so that if either goes off so does the other.
> 
> Of course the original idea was that a single doomsday device would be
> set up to automatically go off if it detects a nuclear war anywhere on
> Earth.  That would effectively deter all possible nuclear wars, hence
> would keep the world safe.  Nothing about that plan could possibly go
> wrong.
> 
> Fortunately, for some reason no doomsday device was ever built.  Maybe
> because enough people watched Dr. Strangelove and similar movies.
> 
> > Another similar dystopian novel, on the other hand -- Down to
> > a Sunless Sea -- suggested that a refugee plane that headed to
> > Antarctica was overtaken by radioactive fallout soon after arriving
> > there.
> 
> There's something called the logistic curve.  It's the integral of its
> more famous cousin, the bell curve.

You presumably mean the Gaussian distribution or normal distribution. However,
there are plenty of other ways an approximately bell-shaped curve can arise.
The most obvious (for me) is the curve for a bell-shaped pH profile of an 
enzyme, which looks superficially like a Gaussian curve, but isn't one. 

>  It implies that for every person
> who dies because he slipped and hit his head and drowned in his cat's
> water dish, there's another who survived more than a year floating
> alone across the Pacific Ocean.

Hmm. That's a very weird definition of the logistic curve!

> For every person who dies because
> he fell out of his chair, there's another who survived falling tens
> of thousands of feet without a parachute.  For every person who is
> frightened to death by a harmless Halloween prank, another person
> survived both the Holodomor and the Holocaust.  For every person who
> was killed by a routine chest X-ray, another survived both the
> Hiroshima and the Nagasaki nukes.
> 
> Our species has survived countless plagues, wars, famines, invasions,
> crimes, evil governments, and natural disasters.  Not to mention the
> Ice Age and the Black Death.  It would take a *really* bad day to make
> us go extinct.
> 
> If Project Sundial had ever been built, and had gone off, I have no
> doubt that we would have survived.  Not all of us, but some of us.
> Maybe like in Stapledon's wonderful 1931 novel _Last and First Men_,
> few enough that the survivors gave rise to a new human species.  In
> that novel -- which is now finally in the public domain hence can be
> read online for free -- this sort of thing happens 18 times over the
> next two billion years.


-- 
athel

Living in Marseilles for 39 years; mainly in England before that,
with long periods in Singapore, California, Chile and Canada 

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#1147422

FromPeter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org>
Date2026-07-23 16:26 +1000
Message-ID<113sc6k$3jilm$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#1147373
On 23/07/26 01:50, athel.cb@gmail.com wrote:
> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> posted:

>> There's something called the logistic curve.  It's the integral of
>> its more famous cousin, the bell curve.
>
> You presumably mean the Gaussian distribution or normal distribution.
> However, there are plenty of other ways an approximately bell-shaped
> curve can arise. The most obvious (for me) is the curve for a
> bell-shaped pH profile of an enzyme, which looks superficially like a
> Gaussian curve, but isn't one.

Another example: you can model calls on a telephone line by assuming a
Poisson arrival process, and random departures. It's possible to solve
for the probability of N simultaneous calls in progress, and plot this
as a function of N. At low traffic levels the curve is asymmetric, but
as the traffic level gets moderately high the curve is so close to a
Gaussian curve that you can't tell the difference. Statisticians have
probably known this since Adam was a pup, but when I first noticed it it
was a marvel.

I have used this to work out traffic control limits for a mail server.
One thing I discovered was that you get correct answers (for where to
set the limit) even if you assume Gaussian statistics from the outset,
even at low traffic levels where the true distribution is nothing like
Gaussian.

-- 
Peter Moylan       peter@pmoylan.org    http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW

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#1147375

FromRich Ulrich <rich.ulrich@comcast.net>
Date2026-07-22 13:11 -0400
Message-ID<tkt16ld57jvcjr177ec5b66mmvhrgt5qti@4ax.com>
In reply to#1147372
On Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:06:33 -0000 (UTC), "Keith F. Lynch"
<kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:

>
>There's something called the logistic curve.  It's the integral of its
>more famous cousin, the bell curve.  

No.  The logistic curve, you might say, is based on the distribution
of the "logit" which is defined as 
   log(p/q)  for the probabilities, p and q-(1-p). 

The distribution of the logit looks a LOT like the 'bell curve' or
gaussian or normal distribution.  But it has fatter tails, meaning
that extreme instances are more common for the logit. 

The logistic, these days, is a common alternative to 'normal' in
doing regressions with binary outcomes (e.g.,  in epidemiology). 


>           It implies that for every person
>who dies because he slipped and hit his head and drowned in his cat's
>water dish, there's another who survived more than a year floating
>alone across the Pacific Ocean.  For every person who dies because
>he fell out of his chair, there's another who survived falling tens
>of thousands of feet without a parachute.  For every person who is
>frightened to death by a harmless Halloween prank, another person
>survived both the Holodomor and the Holocaust.  For every person who
>was killed by a routine chest X-ray, another survived both the
>Hiroshima and the Nagasaki nukes.

You are describing an (essentially) infinite range, which is (of 
course) possible if you just talk about small enough probabilities. 

But the so-called normal curve is also infinite in its range -- I 
think you were over-impressed by the fact that cumulative tails of 
the most extreme outcomes shrink faster for the normal than for 
the logistic.  

-- 
Rich Ulrich, resident biostatistician

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#1147380

FromSnidely <snidely.too@gmail.com>
Date2026-07-22 11:39 -0700
Message-ID<mn.b2bb7ea758829715.127094@snitoo>
In reply to#1147372
Keith F. Lynch presented the following explanation :

> There's something called the logistic curve.  It's the integral of its
> more famous cousin, the bell curve.  

More explicitly, it's L over (1 + (e raised to k times (x - x0)))

And the AUE connection is that is named (by a French mathematician) 
apparently with the idea that

logistic is to logarithmic as arithmetic is to geometric

(Using the "is to" relationship very loosely as some sort of rhetorical 
etymology)

This contrasts with "logisitics", made popular by the military and by 
shipping firms, which is blamed on the French word "logis" for 
lodgings.

/dps  (Whippy Pedalia for the obvious citation)

-- 
"That's a good sort of hectic, innit?"

" Very much so, and I'd recommend the haggis wontons."
                -njm

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#1147424

FromPeter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org>
Date2026-07-23 16:52 +1000
Message-ID<113sdod$3k2u9$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#1147380
On 23/07/26 04:39, Snidely wrote:
>
> This contrasts with "logisitics", made popular by the military and by
>  shipping firms, which is blamed on the French word "logis" for
> lodgings.

I've probably told this before. I've often driven on the Hume Highway,
which is the most direct route between Sydney and Melbourne. Not far
from the state border there is a big sign, pointing to a turn off the
freeway, to "Logic Centre". It occurred to me that solving logic
problems in a rural setting might be a pleasant career change, so one
day I turned off the freeway to take a look.

It turned out to be a massive warehouse. Apparently someone had decided
that "Logic" was a good name for the process of loading supermarket
goods onto trucks.

-- 
Peter Moylan       peter@pmoylan.org    http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW

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#1147535

FromAdam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com>
Date2026-07-24 16:28 +0100
Message-ID<kuccjmx40e.ln2@news.ducksburg.com>
In reply to#1147424
On 2026-07-23, Peter Moylan wrote:

> On 23/07/26 04:39, Snidely wrote:
>>
>> This contrasts with "logisitics", made popular by the military and by
>>  shipping firms, which is blamed on the French word "logis" for
>> lodgings.
>
> I've probably told this before. I've often driven on the Hume Highway,
> which is the most direct route between Sydney and Melbourne. Not far
> from the state border there is a big sign, pointing to a turn off the
> freeway, to "Logic Centre". It occurred to me that solving logic
> problems in a rural setting might be a pleasant career change, so one
> day I turned off the freeway to take a look.
>
> It turned out to be a massive warehouse. Apparently someone had decided
> that "Logic" was a good name for the process of loading supermarket
> goods onto trucks.


Obvious abbreviation for "Logistic", innit?


-- 
XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve the problem,
try using more of it.

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#1147555

FromPeter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org>
Date2026-07-25 10:02 +1000
Message-ID<1140ue1$134mb$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#1147535
On 25/07/26 01:28, Adam Funk wrote:
> On 2026-07-23, Peter Moylan wrote:
>
>> On 23/07/26 04:39, Snidely wrote:
>>>
>>> This contrasts with "logisitics", made popular by the military and by
>>>   shipping firms, which is blamed on the French word "logis" for
>>> lodgings.
>>
>> I've probably told this before. I've often driven on the Hume Highway,
>> which is the most direct route between Sydney and Melbourne. Not far
>> from the state border there is a big sign, pointing to a turn off the
>> freeway, to "Logic Centre". It occurred to me that solving logic
>> problems in a rural setting might be a pleasant career change, so one
>> day I turned off the freeway to take a look.
>>
>> It turned out to be a massive warehouse. Apparently someone had decided
>> that "Logic" was a good name for the process of loading supermarket
>> goods onto trucks.
>
> Obvious abbreviation for "Logistic", innit?

Well, yes, in the same sense that "reason" is an abbreviation for "treason".

-- 
Peter Moylan       peter@pmoylan.org    http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW

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#1147483

Fromnospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder)
Date2026-07-23 23:43 +0200
Message-ID<1ryq3nf.1hxmpkxegcr7rN%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl>
In reply to#1147380
Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> wrote:

> Keith F. Lynch presented the following explanation :
> 
> > There's something called the logistic curve.  It's the integral of its
> > more famous cousin, the bell curve.  
> 
> More explicitly, it's L over (1 + (e raised to k times (x - x0)))
> 
> And the AUE connection is that is named (by a French mathematician) 
> apparently with the idea that

Careful! There are Belgians in the house.

In perhaps more familiar functions:
The logistic function is just the hyperbolic tangent,
offset and scaled by a factor 2.
The 'hump' to be integrated over is the hyperbolic secant,
aka one over the hyperbolic cosine,
(up to a factor 2)

Jan

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#1147418

FromHibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid>
Date2026-07-23 06:25 +0100
Message-ID<ncdmu2F5gelU3@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#1147372
Le 22/07/2026 à 16:06, Keith F. Lynch a écrit :
> 
> Our species has survived countless plagues, wars, famines, invasions,
> crimes, evil governments, and natural disasters.  Not to mention the
> Ice Age and the Black Death.  It would take a*really* bad day to make
> us go extinct.
> 
> If Project Sundial had ever been built, and had gone off, I have no
> doubt that we would have survived.  Not all of us, but some of us.
> Maybe like in Stapledon's wonderful 1931 novel_Last and First Men_,
> few enough that the survivors gave rise to a new human species.  In
> that novel -- which is now finally in the public domain hence can be
> read online for free -- this sort of thing happens 18 times over the
> next two billion years.


Disaster narratives are always from the point of view of the survivors, 
not from that of those who perish. Their picture of the end of the world 
is far too rosy.

Even The Flood is portrayed from Noah's point of view. From the drowned 
we hear nothing.

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#1147161

FromSnidely <snidely.too@gmail.com>
Date2026-07-19 12:52 -0700
Message-ID<mn.9b047ea7ca2512d5.127094@snitoo>
In reply to#1147133
Steve Hayes wrote on 7/19/2026 :

[...]
> Does anyone know when the "Second World War" was first called that?
[...]
>
> People have been talking about the third one by anticipation, so I
> suspect that it will be called that from the start. 
>

The trick is to recognize the start as it happens.  The Brinksmanship 
Scenario suggests that there will be about 15 minutes to recognize that 
it has started, where as the Snowball Scenario suggests that we'll have 
been fighting in several hotspots and they'll eventually be recognized 
as all part of the same conflict.

WWI seems to be a third variation ... the Dry Tinder Scenario, and WWII 
began as what was supposed to be a masterclass in chess.

/dps

-- 
"It wasn't just a splash in the pan"
  -- lectricbikes.com

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#1147118

Fromkludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Date2026-07-19 07:50 -0400
Message-ID<113idm0$bma$1@panix2.panix.com>
In reply to#1147094
Keith F. Lynch <kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
>Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> wrote:
>> I don't know the specifics but I've heard that there was a history
>> of "The Great War" written in the 1920s that referred to it as World
>> War I, or, maybe The First World War.
>
>I wouldn't think anyone would call it that before World War II.  How
>would anyone know there would be a *second* world war?

Someone who is skeptical about the War to End All Wars actually ending
any wars.
--scott

-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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#1147125

FromThe True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.comNOSPAM>
Date2026-07-19 08:55 -0400
Message-ID<MPG.44c6933d8b80a17f98a1a0@news.eternal-september.org>
In reply to#1147094
Verily, in article <113hc56$k7f$1@reader1.panix.com>, did 
kfl@KeithLynch.net deliver unto us this message:
> Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> wrote:
> > I don't know the specifics but I've heard that there was a history
> > of "The Great War" written in the 1920s that referred to it as World
> > War I, or, maybe The First World War.
> 
> I wouldn't think anyone would call it that before World War II.  How
> would anyone know there would be a *second* world war?
> 

They did, actually. There had never been a world war before, at least 
not in memory, and there is writing from the time referring to it as the 
first world war. I've even seen it written as "first World War," for 
those who pay attention to capitalization.  

-- 
The meek shall inherit, we're told,
But I'm not so easily sold.
For supposing they should,
It would do them no good --
They'd lose it at once to the bold. 

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#1147164

Fromdjheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
Date2026-07-19 19:59 +0000
Message-ID<tIFu6p.pD7@kithrup.com>
In reply to#1147125
In article <MPG.44c6933d8b80a17f98a1a0@news.eternal-september.org>,
The True Melissa  <thetruemelissa@gmail.comNOSPAM> wrote:
>Verily, in article <113hc56$k7f$1@reader1.panix.com>, did 
>kfl@KeithLynch.net deliver unto us this message:
>> Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> wrote:
>> > I don't know the specifics but I've heard that there was a history
>> > of "The Great War" written in the 1920s that referred to it as World
>> > War I, or, maybe The First World War.
>> 
>> I wouldn't think anyone would call it that before World War II.  How
>> would anyone know there would be a *second* world war?
>> 
>
>They did, actually. There had never been a world war before, at least 
>not in memory, and there is writing from the time referring to it as the 
>first world war. I've even seen it written as "first World War," for 
>those who pay attention to capitalization.  

[Hal Heydt]
My maternal grandfather, during the 1930s, refused to trade in
old cars on the grounds that they'd be sold, in turn, as scrap
metal to the Japanese who would shoot them back at us.

He was right...  But how many people thought about it that way?

(He was, by the way, born in Denmark in 1879 and came to the US
in 1906. So he had a more European outlook on the world than
many--most?--Americans.)

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#1147180

FromLawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Date2026-07-20 00:00 +0000
Message-ID<113jof2$p7m2$10@dont-email.me>
In reply to#1147164
On Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:59:13 GMT, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:

> My maternal grandfather, during the 1930s, refused to trade in old
> cars on the grounds that they'd be sold, in turn, as scrap metal to
> the Japanese who would shoot them back at us.

The Japanese were pretty militaristic right through the 1930s, if not
before. Remember, they had given the Russians a thrashing in 1905,
severely discomfiting many crowned heads throughout Europe, that some
upstart non-whites could possibly manage such a thing.

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#1147194

Fromnospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder)
Date2026-07-20 10:13 +0200
Message-ID<1ryjfyr.1lok5ht139gcfjN%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl>
In reply to#1147180
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:59:13 GMT, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> 
> > My maternal grandfather, during the 1930s, refused to trade in old
> > cars on the grounds that they'd be sold, in turn, as scrap metal to
> > the Japanese who would shoot them back at us.
> 
> The Japanese were pretty militaristic right through the 1930s, if not
> before. Remember, they had given the Russians a thrashing in 1905,
> severely discomfiting many crowned heads throughout Europe, that some
> upstart non-whites could possibly manage such a thing.

The Japanese could not understand why they couldn't become member
of the club of colonising imperialist industrial powers.
When they did just what the older colonial powers had been routinely
doing for a long time there were outcries about their heinous crimes,

Jan

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#1147244

Fromkludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Date2026-07-20 15:22 -0400
Message-ID<113lsh6$8e3$1@panix2.panix.com>
In reply to#1147194
J. J. Lodder <nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> wrote:
>The Japanese could not understand why they couldn't become member
>of the club of colonising imperialist industrial powers.
>When they did just what the older colonial powers had been routinely
>doing for a long time there were outcries about their heinous crimes,

Indeed.  The same was true of many newly-freed African nations in the
seventies.
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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#1147186

FromPeter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org>
Date2026-07-20 13:29 +1000
Message-ID<113k4n5$t17f$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#1147164
On 20/07/26 05:59, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:

> [Hal Heydt] My maternal grandfather, during the 1930s, refused to
> trade in old cars on the grounds that they'd be sold, in turn, as
> scrap metal to the Japanese who would shoot them back at us.
>
> He was right...  But how many people thought about it that way?
>
> (He was, by the way, born in Denmark in 1879 and came to the US in
> 1906. So he had a more European outlook on the world than
> many--most?--Americans.)

In 1938, Australian dock workers refused to load pig iron onto a ship
bound for Japan, claiming that it would be used for the Japanese war
effort. The Attorney General, who later because Prime Minister,
threatened to send in the army to break the strike. This earned him the
name "Pig Iron Bob".

-- 
Peter Moylan       peter@pmoylan.org    http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW

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#1147153

FromTim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com>
Date2026-07-19 11:52 -0700
Message-ID<113j6d9$inrp$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#1147094
On 7/18/2026 7:18 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
> Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> wrote:
>> I don't know the specifics but I've heard that there was a history
>> of "The Great War" written in the 1920s that referred to it as World
>> War I, or, maybe The First World War.
> 
> I wouldn't think anyone would call it that before World War II.  How
> would anyone know there would be a *second* world war?
> 
> ObSF: _Last and First Men_, published in 1931, mentioned "The Great
> War," but nothing like World War II.
> 
> Similarly, Queen Elizabeth I, who died in 1603, didn't get her regnal
> number until 1952 when Queen Elizabeth II came along.  Before that,
> she was just Queen Elizabeth.

That was why it was worthy of note.  He referred to it as World War I 
before anyone else did.

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Tim Merrigan

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#1147179

FromLawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Date2026-07-19 23:58 +0000
Message-ID<113joas$p7m2$9@dont-email.me>
In reply to#1147153
On Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:52:24 -0700, Tim Merrigan wrote:

> He referred to it as World War I before anyone else did.

I think the signs of a potential future conflict were likely not that
hard to spot, by those not blinkered by blind loyalty to their
respective empires.

The First World War seems to me to have been a pointless conflict. It
was mainly about established empires (Britain and France) trying to
ensure that upstart countries (Germany) could not create their own
empires in competition. Each one called up loyal citizens from all
over home and colonies to fight, and they came, without questioning
what the fight was about -- “My country, right or wrong” was the
standard mindset back then.

The ANZAC countries (of which I live in one) are fond of commemorating
the disastrous Gallipoli campaign. This is where they attacked a
country (the Ottoman Empire at the time) which had never shown any
hostility towards them, and who gave them a severe thrashing. To this
day, the Turks tolerate their turning up every year, and mostly I
think tactfully refrain from reminding them who won that battle.

The end of that world war left a mess, and the following world war was
an attempt to clean up that mess. How successful was it? You be the
judge.

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