reported to [email protected]

April Marine <[email protected]> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 15:29:36 -0800 (PST)
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.weird
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For the heck of it, I reported this spam to the postmaster at Hotmail.
Don't know about y'all, but I've received about half a dozen copies of it.

April

On 22 Nov 1999, 614275 GIANTS wrote:

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> Subject: New Type-Design... for Celebration of Greek Alphabet's 2400th Bitrhday!
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>   Hi here, Mr. Hoffman,  Ms. Marine, Chris Burke and IETF/WEIRD Club 
> Members-this example shows then a typical way in which the other-half; or 
> "GREEK" solution could be utilised, as seen at
> 
>          http://www.slip.net/~navyblue
> 
> (in reference to yesterday's post "BAOZI" (Chinese))But to plainly
> state "what-it-is", that I'm designing; let's just call it "New-TV?"
> Last night on PBS they had a program; New York City Television History
> and the upshot was that "if only TV could be seperated from the Madison 
> Avenue people, just long enough to allow for the natural growth of the 
> medium, in order that the public might be able to se the
> full potentiality as an art form...?" WOODY ALLEN, ROD STIEGER, etc.!
> 
>   The same may be said of the "Internet;"( read "WEB-TV," TiVo, etc. )
> There is going to be PLENTY of REVENUES for EVERYONE...so....? Would
> it be 'allright' if the people who DON'T understand the FUTURE MEDIA
> please just sit in the backseat with their mouths shut? We'll pay you!
> I'm not kidding, it's like some many other enterprises in the last 
> 30-years...it is kind of a 'superstition' with these 'big-wigs' they just
> don't think anything will sell unless they have a kid beating on a garbage 
> can in a ghetto! "We" ...( THE... real... genuine... people)
> DO NOT WANT OUR CLOTHES, PERFUME, CARS, ETC., to come from a GARBAGE CAN in 
> A GHETTO! One question? WHAT DO YOU THINK 'they' WERE TALKING
> ABOUT WHEN 'they' MENTIONED..."VOODOO-(read 'Doo-Doo)ECONOMICS?"
> That's right, just like in '1984; they laid the truth on you but you 
> wouldn't listen! YOU ARE GETTING THE INFERIOR 'STUFF!"
> 
>   I'd like to see a 'modern' Internet. How about you? But with 'info'
> it cannot be..."BY DEFINITION"...all 'Nuts & Bolts' (MECHANICAL!)
> 
>   At some point...ENGLISH SPELLING will have to be 'reformed!' Right?
>      Write? Rite? Wright? Huh? ( as well,  many languages still have
> NO writing system...or MANY! So they 'ain't ready for 'PrimeTime!')
> 
> Phony Hindu accent on TV ad ..."Are you RRRReady?"("for Internet?")
> 
> "Sheesh!", "Come off of it!", " Next!" ( Let's cut the 'baloney'!)
> 
> But if we wanted to just do "Op-Art" perhaps the easiest fast look
> at an example of "fun" ...'solutions', can be seen at
> 
>                  http://www.slip.net/~o614275
> 
> Which is the "DIGITALIZATION" of the "GIANTS!" baseball logo. A very
> "Y2K READY" design?
> 
>   Unbelievable as it may sound, many of the varied works I design are
> made to go together as part of a larger "picture"...and one of those
> "pictures" can be found at
> 
>          http://www.cam.org/home/Wcoprod/mmpro.htm
> 
> first page; 2nd Item, "CALIFORNIA STAR"
> 
> and that is the 'formatting' of information 'by design' for the
> eventual 'convergence' of the technocratic jumble of networking which
> soon will require some semblance of organization.
> 
>    Best method for creating stanards? At the state school-text level!
> 
>   So this is a design for "DIGITAL HIGH SCHOOLS" (AB 64 Mazzoni)
> 
>                   NEW SCIENCE IS HARD ON OLD BRAINS!
> 
> 
> >From: "Casey Farrell" <[email protected]>
> >Reply-To: [email protected]
> >To: [email protected]
> >CC: [email protected]
> >Subject: [twentysixletters] New Type-Design... for Celebration of Greek 
> >Alphabet's 2400th Bitrhday!
> >Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 11:30:59 PST
> >
> >Casey Farrell; Designer                                     Monday
> >San Francisco, CA                                       Nov. 22, 1999
> >
> >Attn: GREEK INET
> >      72 Mozden Lane
> >      Pleasant Hill, CA
> >
> >          Dear Marketing Manager,
> >
> >           I am looking for a way in which to use this GREEK alphabet
> >        designwork of mine, pictured at the URL;
> >
> >                  http://www.slip.net/~navyblue
> >
> >  The graphic on the right side of the screen is a letter-substitution
> >design. Very Simple. There are besides the obvious inferred visual
> >'likenesses' seen in all alphabets with the 'I/1' and the 'O/0'... letters 
> >&
> >numerals, respectively; but that leaves EIGHT (8) NON-ROMAN
> >figures which are the Greek letters "Delta",, etc. Hey! after the 'ONE' and
> >the 'ZERO'...there are EIGHT (8)...'Arabic Numerals'! So
> >we can use them in place of the Greek Letters...only other business
> >being to turn 'L' ("GAMMA") and 'V' ("LAMBDA") 'Upside Down'...that is
> >'Right Side Up'for the letter-to-letter transliteration device shown
> >here under the title of "STAR." The scheme makes allowance only for the
> >Capital Letters & Numerals; much older in form than the 'Cursive.'
> >
> >  There are many reasons why this may be a useful device, but the idea
> >for now is "Just for fun!" A quick keyboard notation. (And there are
> >other-such in the world, for Music Reference Library purposes; and as
> >pointed out, simple transliteration upon a Roman keyboard, say for the
> >rendering of Ancient Greek Coin Inscriptions, ..."in English!" But how this
> >("STAR") differs is in that is using corresponding likeness of shape of
> >letter to numeral, and has alloted each to the other, sorting methodically
> >by shapeforms, hoping to create a new way
> >in which to both advertise to Greek-Speakers, and help the novice who
> >may wish to learn Greek.
> >
> >  And as the Roman Alphabet is a direct descendant of the Greek; this
> >makes a graffiti for celebrating the Ancient Civilizations of Europe!
> >
> >  "Everything Changes..." this seems a way in which to make all things
> >"NEW", by the simple avoidance of taking away anything old!
> >
> >  Please let me know if there is anyway I may be of service to the
> >Greek community, and I would very much like to submit draft proposals
> >implimenting such, for your inspection-when the occasion should arise.
> 
> P.S. (This might be said to be the way in which to create browser-ads
> in the GREEK language...but can be created from the Roman keyboard!)
> >
> >  Thank you,
> >
> >  Casey Farrell
> >
> >tel: (415) 664-2489
> >
> >@[email protected]
> >
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