(urth) OT urth crackdown!

[Fred Kiesche]

Now I can hope for the discovery of "The Jet Black Shore", the 22nd
Aubrey-Maturin novel by Patrick O'Brian...

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:58 PM, <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:

> Wow.
>
> .
>
>
> > Actually, Twain left behind a huge and very frank autobiography and
> > instructions that it not be published for at least a century after his
> > death. He died in 1910, and the first volume of a projected three will
> > be published in November.
> >
> > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Fred Kiesche
> > <godelescherbach at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Mark Twain has returned from the afterlife to do his memoirs? Cool!
> >>
> >> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:26 PM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Pax Romana
> >>>
> >>> On 5/24/2010 11:52 AM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Rome has spoken, and there is an end of the matter.
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Ranjit Bhatnagar<ranjit at moonmilk.com
> >
> >>>>  wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Here comes the Argument From Authority!  As list owner, I hereby
> >>>>> decree:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Mark Twain's forthcoming memoirs are a reasonable topic of discussion
> >>>>> here,
> >>>>> but don't go overboard.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It's a good idea to edit the subject line of a discussion to reflect
> >>>>> the
> >>>>> topic being discussed, particularly if the discussion is drifting
> >>>>> away
> >>>>> from
> >>>>> the main point of the list, which is Gene Wolfe's work.  It's not
> >>>>> mandatory,
> >>>>> though, and it's not in itself a good topic of discussion on this
> >>>>> list.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Acting like a jerk is always off-topic, even if the other guy started
> >>>>> it.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This list has been around for almost 15 years with almost no
> >>>>> moderation,
> >>>>> and
> >>>>> this has almost always worked out just fine.  Sometimes bickering has
> >>>>> broken
> >>>>> out, and some valuable members have left because of the noise.  I'd
> >>>>> prefer
> >>>>> to keep that to a minimum.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> If you have any complaints or comments about this decree, email me
> >>>>> directly.  Note that I wasn't calling YOU a jerk-- I was talking
> >>>>> about
> >>>>> that
> >>>>> other guy.
> >>>>> - Ranjit
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
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> >>
> >> --
> >> F.P. Kiesche III  "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book.
> >> Always,
> >> scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being
> >> presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.)
> >> Blogging at The Lensman's Children
> >> (http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/).
> >>
> >>
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-- 
F.P. Kiesche III  "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always,
scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being
presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.)
Blogging at The Lensman's Children (
http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/).
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