Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 13:24:47 -0800
From: skrise@erinet.com (Geocities WebMonitor mail)
To: skrise@erinet.com
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(fname) Kay
(lname) Mar
(email) kaymar@K-Mar.com
(processor) PC-Pentium
(other) When are you going to add the great IBM WebExplorer to your list of browsers?
(opsys) OS/2
(description)
I just took another look at the chess page, and indeed your pawn only moved a single step. So there is no en passant capture possable. I doubt I'll ever see that move played.
Anatoly Karpov took on the world when he played a chess match via the internet. The world was given seven minutes to vote on each next move, with the most popular move being used. Karpov played black, and won in 32 moves. Around 250 players from all over the world took part, and the majority eventually resigned.
At first it sounds like you'd have to be pretty good to beat 250 players. But 250 voting chess players are going to play a lot worse than the best player among them. Can you imagine how hard it would be to work a strategy when you can't control future moves?
Does this mail go to you geocities account? If so, do you ever check it?
The Luddite says:
As you can see above, these comments go to my
EriNet account.
Date: Unknown
To: svenfoucault@geocities.com
Great minimalist page!
A good laugh early in the morning!
guthrie@xxx.edu
The Luddite says:
Sir Overoye,
You're the first official replyer to my homepage who's not the Grangerizer (url: http://geocities.datacellar.net/NapaValley/1729/).
Congrats!
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 20:43:19 -0800
From: (Geocities WebMonitor mail)
To: skrise@erinet.com
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(fname) Grange R.
(lname) Izer
(email) someone@somewhere.net
(processor) PC-Pentium
(browser) ns2x
(opsys) Win 95
(description)
Yo Ludmench,
I'm browsing your homey page from home now. Had to download the Netscape 16-bit version. I now have no less than three versions of Netscape on my desktop. Kind of overkill, you agree?
Anyway, this means I'll be able to sacrifice free time at home to dress up the web pages.
Did you ever get a view on Wallop.gif? If not I'll be sure to post it in a http-ready place.
By The Way, my supervisor just did his telnet server app one better. He has built an http server for Windows 3.1. All you would have to do is http:// to his IP address (or anyone's with a static IP address and his app) to view html there. Again, he said it would be something . . . <comment truncated because the Grangerizer can't use CR's>.
Wonder where these comments go.
Sending now,
wallop
Subject: On your site
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 11:45:03 -0500 (EST)
From: guy@xxxxx.net (Some Guy)
To: hz477@kanga.ins.cwru.edu
hz,
Perused some of your pages on Luddism. Appreciate that you've included a link or two to Sales stuff, but was suprised to find almost no content of your own. Did I just miss it? I'm not trying to flame here, but given the potential of the Luddite handle, and the very real nature of the problems represented around this politiconomic issue, don't you think this site deserves a slightly more revolutionary/intellectual, or at least angry flavor?
With all due respect to you for putting up this page, many of us who are already facing economic extinction/enslavement by the insect god Prophet can't wait till our fellow rather complacent {smug?} technologists & acadmeics start facing the challenge of really competing for wages against their techno-brothers in the third world, like the majority of our fellow industrialized society brothers already are. Hopefully, at that point this problem will create a Luddism site that is more than an just interesting form of radical chic.
The .edu of your address is sort of an annoying reminder to me that class consciouness is best enjoyed from a safe distance.
Sincerely and Respectfully Yours,
Some Guy, Pub.
Editec Communications
Belfast, Maine
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 08:43:48 -0800
From: skrise@erinet.com (Geocities WebMonitor mail)
To: skrise@erinet.com
Sent from Mail Form posted at: http://geocities.datacellar.net/NapaValley/1517/form.html
(fname) Radical
(lname) Chic
(email) hw144@luddites.net
(processor) PC-386
(browser) lynx
(opsys) Win 95
(description)
Seriously, I'm running Lynx from OS/2. It's pretty cool! in it's own way. It's a port called Lynx/2. In the helpfile is the question "Why port Lynx to OS/2?" I don't know if there were any real good reasons (one was to provide BBS users a web connexion) but I'm trying it our for fun. I was going to ask you how to show where the links take you before you -> on them, but this time it's showing them at the bottom. Must have put it in a different mode. I can't send mail from here (our mail is through msmail, you recall), so hopefully this form will work. Lynx is cool like an 8-track player.
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 20:07:04 -0800
From: (Geocities WebMonitor mail)
To: skrise@erinet.com
Sent from Mail Form posted at: http://geocities.datacellar.net/NapaValley/1517/form.html
(fname) Steve "good thing my name is short enough to fit in this tiny blank" Gadd
(lname) Oh I see. here's where the last name goes.
(email) same as always
(processor) PC-586
(other) Lynx/2
(opsys) Win 95, No fair, I can't select Win95 and OS/2 at the same time
(description)
I'm sending you a comment to let you know that the page I referred to in an adjoining e-mail has the following URL:
and that is that.
This message brought to you courtesy of my modem, an OS/2 telnet session, lynx, geocities, and sundry go-betweens.
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 13:19:34 -0800
From: (Geocities WebMonitor mail)
To: skrise@erinet.com
Sent from Mail Form posted at: http://geocities.datacellar.net/NapaValley/1517/form.html
(fname) The
(lname) Grangerizer
(email) ramanujan@geocities.com
(processor) PC-486
(browser) ie2x
(opsys) OS/2
(description)
I am just now trying out the non-beta version 2.02 of Netscape for OS/2. So far no troubles.
Your updated stuffs are impressive. I read straight through the HPFS info and learned quite a bit. Did you just type that from your brain or what? AMOS sounds like a utility my boss could use. I'll look around and see if I can find any traces of it. If it exists... <trucations again>
Your luddite.html was great too. I thought this paragraph was particularly good:
Luddites definitely qualify as a cognitive minority, with their repudiation of the domination of technology in our culture. I would agree with them to a large degree concerning the soteriological myth of technicism, i.e. technology will cure us of all our woes. This is a lie and a false hope founded on the outdated principles of Enlightenment Humanism. We (human beings) are not everyday in every way getting better and better. Anyone who would believe this is blind to the obvious. But the misuse or misapplication of technology does not demand a dismissal in whole or in part of technology. There is a place for more organic pursuits, which serve to restore a sense of connexion with the world around us, but the benefits of some technologies, such as e-mail or the World Wide Web are great, and it's foolish to not even consider their utility.
I'm in a dry spell as to ideas to put on my page. I haven't the time or inclination to hack out goofy VB crapplets, fun as they are to play with. The only amusing concept I have thought of lately is a mock-apocalypse warning called Y10K.
Let me know when your response to Guy arrives.
Insect God Prophet indeed,
dope fiend.
Thanks for the praise on LUDDITE.HTML. I'm afraid it's still not angry enough, though. I still don't know why your comments are getting truncated. Probably has to do with the maximum line length in the DOS editor or even worse in the Micro$oft NoteBad.
