Personal introduction from a newcomer

Hi there everbody,

I have just joined the Shado egroup and thought it would be polite to
introduce myself to everbody for what I hope will be the start of a long
friendship.

I am currently 36 yrs of age which means I can just about remember the first
showings of UFO in the early 70's when I was just a kid and boy did it have
an impact on me!! I live in a little town called Elland which is West
Yorkshire England for those of you who are not from the UK.As for my job, I
am just completing my Microsoft certified system engineering exams, this
after spending 4 yrs lecturing in European Union politics at Leeds
University - what a change!!

Anyway, enough of the boring stuff, my interest dare I say affection for the
UFO series stems as indicated from my childhood. What I remember
particularly at that tender age were the groovy purple wigs, the green faces
and plastic shells on the aliens and perhaps most of all, that wonderful
haunting even sinister sound of the UFO's themselves.

But the impact the seies had on me at that early age has remained with me
until this day. On a more mature reflection, the actual quality of both the
scripts/stories and the special effects is outstanding. It is difficult to
pick out one particular episode which I can honestly say yeah baby thatis my
fav, but if pushed I would say 'The sound of silence' - geez I don't know
about you, but that ep really does send a shiver up my spine when I look at
that alien with those white shellson his eyes. What else about UFO is so
good, very briefly two things : 1) the absolutely fab music - both the
introducton and the incidental - I really believe it has not been bettered
since in any other sci fi series; and 2) the absolutely groovy fashions esp
the suits. I am a bit of a 60's fashion nut i.e I actually go to Caranaby St
in London to get some of my clothes and yeah baby - they are very
psychedelic. Moreover, have any you noticed how the nerhu coller type suits
as seen in UFO are back in fashion - I ve got a couple myself and they are
very popular in West London - the swinging 60's are still alive!! Very
groovy.

That's enough from me - I hope I haven't ranted on too much, but i look to
conversing with you very soon.

Be groovy,

JOHN WADSWORTH-LADKIN
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JOHN WADSWORTH-LADKIN wrote:

<< Hi there everbody,
I have just joined the Shado egroup and thought it would be polite to
introduce myself to everbody for what I hope will be the start of a long
friendship. >>

how d'you do, John!
welcome!!
and enjoy.

Carly
:-D





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John Wadsworth-Ladkin wrote:

> Hi there everbody,
>
> I have just joined the Shado egroup and thought it would be polite to
> introduce myself to everbody for what I hope will be the start of a long
> friendship.

Howdy, John!!! <waving>


[hidden email] wrote:

> Servus!

Guten abend!

> I just subscribed to this mailinglist some days ago. The kind welcome note
> from the moderator invited me to do a little introduction - so here I am!
> ;-)
>
> I'm 25 years old and living in Germany. The first time I saw UFO was many
> years ago, I only remember it to be the episode in which one of the
> red-suits landed on earth and stayed at the home of a blind lady, putting up
> a transmitter to get in contact with SHADO. At the end of the episode,
> however, he was shot by his own people.

Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh, "A Question of Priorities" <sad shake of head>

> Anyway, the series is being repeated here for the first time in more then
> ten years, and this was the reason for me to check whether there might be a
> www-site about it. As luck would happen, there even was a whole mailinglist!
> ;-)
>
> RU! (48o18'13''N/10o10'32''E)

Hey! What's that? Some alien code?? <frowning and fingering flamer>



Welcome, Newbies!

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Servus!

B> << Hey! What's that? Some alien code?? <frowning and fingering flamer>
B> Actually it's a location. I *think* (g)
Yes, it is. Admit it: Do you know where "Weissenhorn" is? Can you even tell
wether it's in Germany, Austria or Swizerland? See, that's why I included
coordinates. This way you can home right in on me... ;-)

B> I think the move to egroups was a plus after all.
Well, to be frank, not to me: I've grown to be quite careful where I state
my email adress nowadays. For sites I can't really trust (and egroups is
definitly one of them - they are not in the business for the fun of it but
to make hard cash) I have a special adress with gmx that can be filtered
easily, should spam ever be sent there. There's a slight hitch, though: I
can't (not that easily, anyway) answer via that adress.

So I first registered this adress with egroups, realizing that I could only
read messages to the list, not write some myself. When after some time (a
matter of hours, to be honest... ;-) ) I recognized that being a silent
reader just wouldn't do it for me, I changed the adress. It's surely worth
the "risk", but still I'm not really comfortable with it.

If the listserver was a privatly owned machine, there would not be this
dilemma.

B> Welcome, everyone!
Thanks!

B> Just so you know, Straker is mine. ;-)
Not a problem with me. He's not really my type - I'd rather consider having
dinner with Ellis... ;-)

RU! (48o18'13''N/10o10'32''E)

[hidden email] wrote:

>
> B> I think the move to egroups was a plus after all.
> Well, to be frank, not to me: I've grown to be quite careful where I state
> my email adress nowadays. For sites I can't really trust (and egroups is
> definitly one of them - they are not in the business for the fun of it but
> to make hard cash) I have a special adress with gmx that can be filtered
> easily, should spam ever be sent there. There's a slight hitch, though: I
> can't (not that easily, anyway) answer via that adress.
>

Hi and welcome Alto - I must say I twitched slightly when I read
your mail, as I have personally experienced a marked increase in
SPAM sent to the address I use for [hidden email] since the
move, although can't say for sure that this is the cause, of course
- but has anyone else suffered an obvious upsurge in the rising
tide of unsolicited commercial email just recently?

Cheers,
James

----- Message d'origine -----
De : <[hidden email]>

> Yes, it is. Admit it: Do you know where "Weissenhorn" is? Can you even
tell
> wether it's in Germany, Austria or Swizerland? See, that's why I included
> coordinates. This way you can home right in on me... ;-)

It's been nice meeting you!
Since there are aliens on this list, you can say goodbye to your organs....
;-)

--Anny
<waving bye-bye>

James Gibbon wrote:

> Hi and welcome Alto - I must say I twitched slightly when I read
> your mail, as I have personally experienced a marked increase in
> SPAM sent to the address I use for [hidden email] since the
> move, although can't say for sure that this is the cause, of course
> - but has anyone else suffered an obvious upsurge in the rising
> tide of unsolicited commercial email just recently?

Hmmmmmmmmmm. Well, I was getting a lot of spam anyway - I thought it was
from posting to newsgroups with my real addy (don't always remember or
bother to change it). Now that I have changed e-mail addys, I'll have to
see. Haven't gotten any spam yet in the few days I've had this new
server .....


And:
<<
De : <[hidden email]>

> Yes, it is. Admit it: Do you know where "Weissenhorn" is? Can you even
tell
> wether it's in Germany, Austria or Swizerland? See, that's why I included
> coordinates. This way you can home right in on me... ;-)

It's been nice meeting you!
Since there are aliens on this list, you can say goodbye to your
organs....
;-)

--Anny
<waving bye-bye>
>>

I was thinking the same thing!! I thought, jeesh! Why would he
advertise his coordinates? Does he WANT to lose a lung? <gawk>


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Our Weissenhorn friend you wrote:
>Servus!

Grüss Gott :-)


> B> << Hey! What's that? Some alien code?? <frowning and fingering flamer>
> B> Actually it's a location. I *think* (g)
>Yes, it is. Admit it: Do you know where "Weissenhorn" is? Can you even tell
>wether it's in Germany, Austria or Swizerland? See, that's why I included
>coordinates. This way you can home right in on me... ;-)

Not all that for from the Bodensee, isn't it? And the Donau. Been there
(years ago). Nice area.


> B> I think the move to egroups was a plus after all.
>Well, to be frank, not to me: I've grown to be quite careful where I state
>my email adress nowadays. For sites I can't really trust (and egroups is
>definitly one of them - they are not in the business for the fun of it but
>to make hard cash) I have a special adress with gmx that can be filtered
>easily, should spam ever be sent there. There's a slight hitch, though: I
>can't (not that easily, anyway) answer via that address.

Aren't all emails sent to this list accessible to the general public and
aren't the email addresses of the senders of each message listed as sender?

And why can't you answer with your gmx address? Gmx is just perfect since
it's both web-based or/and the mail can be downloaded into one's regular
email programme. Pretty handy if one's computer is out for weeks (as
happened to me), one can still check email and even answer it with whatever
computer one happens to come across as long as it has a connection to the
Net and a browser.


> B> Just so you know, Straker is mine. ;-)
>Not a problem with me. He's not really my type - I'd rather consider having
>dinner with Ellis... ;-)

The waiting list is a mile long!!! :-)


>RU! (48o18'13''N/10o10'32''E)
>

Lieve (50o57'33''N/3o07'12''E) :-)




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Servus!

>> "Weissenhorn"
L> Not all that for from the Bodensee, isn't it? And the Donau. Been there
L> (years ago). Nice area.
Right, that's the surroundings. You know Ulm? Go just a little (15 km or so)
to the south-east and you're here.

L> Aren't all emails sent to this list accessible to the general public and
L> aren't the email addresses of the senders of each message listed as
L> sender?
I didn't think so. In the automated welcome-message I received it was said
that S.H.A.D.O. would be a "closed list" and only the peaople registered for
it could send messages, of course only using the adress they had registered
with. And yes, the sender adresses are indeed being used, but I'd like to
have the "return to"-adress used. This adress I can modify when using my
primary provider, but the real "sender"-adress I have no influence on. If I
change it, the provider just changes it back.

L> And why can't you answer with your gmx address?
Because I don't want to use only GMX for sending messages, first because it
too doesn't allow for reply-to-headers other then the standard adress,
second because it's darn solw (compared to T-Online which I usually use),
and third because I don't want my messages being laced with any "sent
through GMX"-lines. (Apperantly GMX doesn't do the last if you use POP as
opposed to their www-interface, but still.)

... but if I don't want to dispense with my normal mailserver while using
GMX additionally, I would have to be able to define which outgoing mail
should go to which server, and that I cannot do without much manual
intervention and plenty of room for error.

L> Pretty handy if one's computer is out for weeks (as happened to me)
Tell me about it. I just had a power surge during a thunderstorm a few weeks
ago. It luckily didn't affect my main computer at all, but my mailbox
computer suffered severe damage from it.

>> RU! (48o18'13''N/10o10'32''E)
L> Lieve (50o57'33''N/3o07'12''E) :-)
Yes! I converted someone! :-)

RU! (48o18'13''N/10o10'32''E)

Hi Alto and all the other newbies too :-)

Alto's coordinates are actually a secret SHADO base in Germany, but now the
secret is out we'll have to kill everyone who reads the list.

> - but has anyone else suffered an obvious upsurge in the rising
> tide of unsolicited commercial email just recently?
I have definitely experienced a 150% increasde in spam from the exact week
the egroups list started, oh well :-(

Lord Yuchtar could use her flamer on the spammers then we'd all be happy.

John D'Alton Infosystems Innovator, Network Overdrive
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