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27886 Hotmail -- rank: 1000

Someone forwarded me offlist a response from a Microsoft techie explaining what's up with all the bounces. Basically, their servers are screwed up and won't be fixed for - get this - at least two weeks! This from a company with something like $43 billion in cash. Doug ---- >From: Jack at CS [mailto:jack_cs25 at hotmail.com] >Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 6:20 PM >To: 'aaron' >Subject: RE: Diagnostic Question > > > >OK, here's what's happening. We accept your message and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 16 09:41:00 PDT 2002

27887 Democratic Left_ list (UFT) -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I think it is a very sensible request. You probably wouldn't pass muster because you've had kind things to say about the USSR and Eastern Europe during the Soviet era. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 16 09:25:35 PDT 2002

27888 Fun with Competiton -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >Microsoft has been caught using a fake advert that claimed >people were switching from Macs to Windows PCs. >The advert debuted on Microsoft's website and supposedly >recounted the story of a former Apple Mac user who had >converted to using Windows. Ha, they're so jealous of that druggy teen Mac-head cult star, and are anguished that no one will ever endorse a Microsoft product in a Chicks on Speed song. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 15 16:14:12 PDT 2002

27889 hotmail -- rank: 1000

I'm continuing to get delivery failure notices for seven hotmail subscribers. Are there any hotmail subscribers who are getting this message? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 15 12:50:20 PDT 2002

27890 Bali bombing -- rank: 1000

Grant Lee wrote: >Most of the whodunnit speculation so far has revolved around the supposed >connection between al Qaeda and the Indonesian-based Jemaah Islamiyah; in >fact there are several other groups with both motive and opportunity. > >One of the better-balanced articles I've seen: > >http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=comment&id=263 Thanks for the pointer. How's this playing in Australia? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 15 10:42:01 PDT 2002

27891 Distort D'Newsa on arguing with liberals -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - October 15, 2002 "ARGUING with liberals is like wrestling with a pig. You get dirty, and the pig likes it" - Dinesh D'Souza at the Fabiani Society at the Princeton Club . . .

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 15 08:06:27 PDT 2002

27892 hotmail -- rank: 1000

Anyone know what's going on with hotmail? I'm getting all kinds of "delivery failed" notices from the hotmail postmaster for listmembers whose accounts are with that branch of the Evil Empire. It's been happening for a few weeks now, with no explanation other than "delivery failed." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 14 18:02:55 PDT 2002

27893 from the nation -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >Is this the article that the Reverend Lou Proyect >attacked as sectarian? Yes. And "objectively counter-revolutionary." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 14 17:05:26 PDT 2002

27894 accuracy in nfl records dept. -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >"The Rams are now 1-4..." > >watch it...they are1-5! >fs Rams? Is this some religious ritual you're talking about? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 14 16:45:43 PDT 2002

27895 American Prospect "crackup" according to Kaus -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Hmm-- well not that I consider Kaus an accurate source on the American >Prospect, but found this item interesting in light of my recent question >about TAPPED's politics: > >http://slate.msn.com/?id=2072312 >Kaus- Die TAPperdammerung: This late-breaking news on the continuing >American Prospect crackup. ... Kausfiles hears that 1) The Prospect board is >planning to announce Wednesday... Well, that's a testable proposition. Kaus has been pronouncing ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 14 16:31:00 PDT 2002

27896 Brazil jacks up interest rates to 21% -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Reuters was quoted as saying: > >> Adding to the market jitters were two new opinion polls showing >> presidential candidate Lula, a former union leader who still spooks >> investors for past talk of debt restructuring, with a commanding lead >> over market favorite Serra. > >I don't understand why this keeps being reported as developing news, as if >a lot of reasonable people are hoping for it to change and S ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 14 16:08:33 PDT 2002

27897 Brazil jacks up interest rates to 21% -- rank: 1000

[an extremely odd policy move - anyone have any ideas why?] Reuters Market News Brazil's markets tumble on rate hike, new polls Monday October 14, 3:11 pm ET By Todd Benson SAO PAULO, Brazil, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Brazil's currency and stocks slumped on Monday afternoon in volatile trading after the Central Bank surprised the market by jacking up interest rates in a bid to keep a lid on inflation. ADVERTISEMENTA fresh batch of opinion polls released over the weekend was also casting a dark cloud ov ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 14 12:29:42 PDT 2002

27898 Senator Byrd -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >But besides the fact that >that 98% of such attacks were baldly imperialistic (and thus not what a >Senator would consciously want to base himself on (Oh yeah! It's just like >when we installed Somoza! See, perfectly legitimate!)), not a single one >of them could (b) be considered preemptive in the sense of preempting a >threat. And Iraq isn't either, really. Warner's right that the U.S. has attacked first many times, and Byrd was being sanctimonious and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 14 10:09:17 PDT 2002

27899 Labor Party (was: Bush Threatens Veto...) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >This is the point that has bothered me most since I first heard the >proposal for a Labor Party about 10+/- years or so ago in an address >Tony Mazzocchi gave at a plenary of an early Radical Scholars and >Activists conference in Chicago. There is simply too sharp a split -- a >split that tends to be antagonistic even -- between "organized labor" >and the vast majority of the u.s. working class. So what's your approach? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 14 10:07:38 PDT 2002

27900 interview questions? -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: >How cool are you, Doug? Dunno. Much of the time I feel like a dork. >Any chance of transcripts, online-ness, anything not confined to the States? It'll be webcast live, assuming the server's working, from 3-6 PM Thursday NYC time (which is 5-8 AM Friday Adelaide time, I think). And I'll put it up on my web radio archive too. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 14 09:50:10 PDT 2002