Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 17:12:54 -0400 (EDT) From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Truncated messages Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Here are the eight messages that may have been cut off partway through, at least as seen by some subscribers. >From MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu Thu Mar 7 10:24:27 2002 Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 10:20:03 -0500 From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Worm news This is from the JHUPress IS dept, they have never sent out a false-alarm = or a warning about a fake virus. Can't imagine why Keith is happy about being Microsoft free . . . look at = all of the "fun" he's missing . . . <g>. Anyway, here's the news: This one is not yet highly rated by Symantec, but it's sneaky enough to = justify sending advance warning. According to Symantec, "W32.Gibe at mm is a worm that uses Microsoft Outlook = and its own SMTP engine to spread. This worm arrives in an email message--w= hich is disguised as a Microsoft Internet Security Update--as the = attachment Q216309.exe." "The fake message, which is not from Microsoft, has the following = characteristics: From: Microsoft Corporation Security Center Subject: [WSFA] Internet Security Update Message: Microsoft Customer, this is the latest version of security update, the update which eliminates = all known security vulnerabilities affecting Internet Explorer and MS = Outlook/Express as well as six new vulnerabilities . . . How to install Run attached file q216309.exe How to use You don't need to do anything after installing this item." Norton Antivirus for Email Gateways should now be protecting our Groupwise = system from this worm, but if you check email at work using any other = method, the worm could get through. As always, please beware of attachments= unless you are expecting them and know exactly what they are. At home = and at work, beware of running attached executable (program) files that = are attached to emails! >From MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu Thu Mar 7 11:29:12 2002 Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 11:24:28 -0500 From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: List of subscribers >I just added Carolyn Frank to the list. We currently have 28 >subscribers. Here are their names, email addresses, and how many >messages they've posted since the list began 24 days ago: > >Lee Gilliland leeandalexis at hotmail.com 74 >Lee Strong StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL 73 >Mike Walsh MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu 80 In the lead! But I see that that the two Lees are nipping at my heels . . = . >There is also: > >Bob MacIntosh macbuccfo at email.msn.com 2 > >but I temporarily removed him from the list since his ISP was >rejecting more than half the messages, bouncing them back to me >without explanation. Perhaps it knows yor thoughs about Micro$oft . . . mjw >-- >Keith F. Lynch - kfl at keithlynch.net - http://keithlynch.net/ >I always welcome replies to my e-mail, postings, and web pages, but >unsolicited bulk e-mail (spam) is not acceptable. Please do not send me >HTML, "rich text," or attachments, as all such email is discarded unread. > >From MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu Mon Apr 1 17:39:22 2002 Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 17:33:44 -0500 From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions >leeandalexis at hotmail.com > > StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL 04/01/02 03:40PM >>>> > > I was wondering if he had expanded his boycott to the entire = >United > >States since. The NAACP is currently boycotting South Carolina over an > >issue that I thought settled in 1865. > >It was, unfortunately South Carolina seems to be ignoring the historical = = >fact that they lost the rebellion, so the flag really should go away . . = . > >mjw >As a silly sidenote, I was brought up for a time in SC, and was taught = in >third grade that it was not a Cicil War, but The War of Sourthern = Succession >- a fact you forgot at your own peril. > Well, they still lost, whatever facade they wish to hide behind. mjw >From rw_lynch at yahoo.com Tue Apr 2 23:31:10 2002 Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 20:31:07 -0800 (PST) From: Rich Lynch <rw_lynch at yahoo.com> Subject: [WSFA] Suitable Punishment (was: Political Inventions) To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> --- "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at keithlynch.net> wrote: . > > So, what does everyone think of that > Israel/Palestine situation? > What ought to be done? > I think they all should be forced to read 1000 emails per day from those scam artists from N*geria. Or maybe even more. ===== Rich Lynch ========== MIMOSA web site: http://jophan.org/mimosa/ 1960s Fan History Site: http://jophan.org/1960s/ >From MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu Thu May 30 17:42:48 2002 Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 17:41:40 -0400 From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] China Mieville at LC Here's another reason to go to the China Mieville Library of Congress gig = . His new novel - THE SCAR - in the 20 May PublishersWeekly received a = starred review, not too shabby. A few quotes from the review: "one of the most talented new writers" "The author creates a marvelously detailed floating civilization filled = with dark, eccentric characters worthy of Mervyn Peake or Charles = Dickens." "This is state-of-the-art dark fantasy and a likely canidate for any = number of award nominations." Needless to say, YMMV. mjw >From MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu Thu Oct 17 13:26:53 2002 Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 13:21:38 -0400 From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> To: <wsfalist at keithlynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Capclave & hucksters Folks, Any of you with time on your hands who would be able to help with the = dealer's move in would be welcomed. We're expecting to have the room at = 3pm and open to the attendees around 6pm. To do this we need to get folks = like Larry Smith unloaded and into the room as quickly as possible. One advantage of this is that *you* get first shot at the merchandise . . = . See y'all Friday. mjw "In the end nothing could be said of his work except that it was preposterous and true and totally unacceptable" http://www.relax.com.au/~amf47/jerusalemdreaming/Home.htm >From ronkean at juno.com Tue Jan 7 14:11:42 2003 To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 10:06:28 -0500 Subject: [WSFA] Re: baseballs and newsgroups From: ronkean at juno.com On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 23:22:00 -0500 (EST) "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> writes: > ronkean at juno.com wrote: > > Can anyone calculate terminal velocity? I suppose the question > > is: how fast a wind would it take to exert 1.42 newtons of force on a > > 43 cm^2 cross section? > > Not enough information. The surface makes a big difference. > Yes, the surface can make a difference in the drag coefficient, as does the shape. A flat plate facing the wind can have some 30 times the drag coefficient of an airfoil shape. A golf ball is dimpled because the dimples reduce drag compared to what the drag would be with a smooth ball, such as a ping-pong ball. But amazingly, for some shapes even knowing the shape and surface does not necessarily determine the drag coefficient. See http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/shaped.html . At that web page it is said that a sphere may have a drag coefficient anywhere from .07 to 0.5, depending on air speed. But they do give a formula for drag, so now I can try to calculate the upper and lower limits for the terminal velocity, assuming the baseball is a sphere, and ignoring the effect of the surface characteristics, by taking the drag coefficient of the baseball to be in the range .07 to 0.5 . The formula given is D = 1/2 Cd R A V^2, where D is drag, Cd is drag coefficient, R is air density, A is frontal area, and V is velocity. To find V, we may use V = sqrt(2D / Cd R A). So for Cd = 0.5, and R = 1.2, we get V = 33 m/s = 109 feet per second = 74 miles per hour. For Cd = .07, we get 89 m/s = 199 miles per hour. So in round numbers the terminal velocity of a baseball would be somewhere between 75 mph and 200 mph. > ...there was the journalist who reported that > there were many thousands of satanic cults on the Internet. He had > done a search for all web pages containing either "satanic" or > "cult," and assumed that all such pages were home pages for distinct groups > of Satan worshippers. > Of course an actual satanic cult probably would not describe itself in those words, 'cult' being a word which has acquired a pejorative connotation. ... New York fan Seth Breidbart is the person who formally > defined > newsgroup spam for purposes of determining what should be canceled. > Look up "Breidbart Index".) > That seems to be an index of 'excessive multiple posting' within a 45 day period. ... Google > also indexes over 3 billion web pages, something it's much better > known for. > > And they do it *quickly*, too. They're already indexed the > November > 1992 WSFA Journal, which I just put up yesterday, and didn't tell > anyone about. (Googling for "drunken badgers" will find it.) But it seems to vary. One of my neighbors built a Bonetti machine and posted pictures of it on the web (I had made the pictures), and I readily found those with a google search for "bonetti machine". It was on the first page of search results, out of some 1500 results. http://users.erols.com/mbillian/Bonetti_machine/ But my own web page has been up for nearly a year, and google has apparently not indexed it. Ron Kean >From MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu Wed Mar 19 16:28:27 2003 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 16:28:05 -0500 From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Predicting who will be at WSFA meetings >erjablow at netacc.net 03/19/03 04:22PM >> "Paging Hari Sheldon . . . paging Hari Sheldon . . . . you are needed = . >> . = ." >> >> mjw > >Sheldon? would you believe I was trying to make a cryptiv, obscure reference to = time travel and James Tiptree? No? How about it's just a typo? mjw