/ni, All!

The 7th of November is a great holidy in the Soviet Union.

Denis
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Denis Mosko:

The 7th of November is a great holidy in the Soviet
Union.

What? A blast from the past?

It *was* a great holiday in the Soviet Union until the
country "collapsed", and not entirely through its own fault.
But look at the last Soviet leaders: they all entered office
old men and left by death of old age.

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Hi, Denis! Recently you wrote in a message to All:

The 7th of November is a great holidy in the Soviet Union.

Commemorating the Bolshevik Revolution, also known in the West as the Russian Revolution &/or the October Revolution? :-)




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Hi, Ardith Hinton!
I read your message from 04.11.2019 21:12

The 7th of November is a great holidy in the Soviet Union.

Commemorating the Bolshevik Revolution, also known in the West as
the Russian Revolution &/or the October Revolution?

He is a beginning programmer. For a while his program can only send crazy messages. ;-)

Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2019

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Hi, Denis! Recently you wrote in netmail to Ardith Hinton:

The 7th of November is a great holidy in the Soviet Union.

Commemorating the Bolshevik Revolution, also known in the
West as the Russian Revolution &/or the October Revolution?

Yes.

Ah... thankyou. I suspected as much, from what I remembered of a history course I took years ago, but politics is not my forte.

I also wanted to get you to write a bit more in English, and help other readers who might not have a clue what you & Anton were on about. ;-)

CANADA celebrating?

No. Canadians don't celebrate Guy Fawkes' Day either, although I think they may have at one time. Briefly... this person was implicated in a scheme to blow up the British Parliament buildings but got caught before any damage was done. AFAIK the occasion is still celebrated in the UK.

Because of our ex-Brit roots Dallas & I understood the meaning of yesterday's date when it popped up on one electronic device or another. But while North Americans follow many of the same rituals, they tend to do it on Hallowe'en (Oct. 31st) rather than Nov. 5th.... :-)




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Hi, Alexander! Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

The 7th of November is a great holidy in the Soviet Union.

Commemorating the Bolshevik Revolution, also known in the
West as the Russian Revolution &/or the October Revolution?

He is a beginning programmer. For a while his program can
only send crazy messages. ;-)

Ah... that may explain why messages from Denis which don't strike me as particularly confidential end up in my netmail area.

The example I've just replied to seemed to indicate that the message Denis was replying to had been forwarded from E_T, presumably by Denis himself. My software allows me to specify move, copy or forward & indicates upon arrival who told it to do that. On the downside my software can't decipher the Russian alphabet. We all do the best we can with what we have, and although I am not a techie I count myself fortunate that my computer guru is in the same room.

I've tried many times to explain to Denis & others that I can't send netmail to points in Z2, but folks from Z2 don't appear to understand why. :-Q




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Hi, Denis! Recently you wrote in netmail to Ardith Hinton:

HI, Wit's End!

Ah... that may explain why messages from You which don't strike
me as particularly confidential end up in my netmail area.

The example I've just replied to seemed to indicate that the
message You was replying to had been forwarded from E_T, presumably
by You himself. My software allows me to specify move, copy or
forward & indicates upon arrival who told it to do that. On the
downside my software can't decipher the France alphabet. We all do
the best we can with what we have, and although I am not a techie I
count myself fortunate that my computer guru is in the same room.

I've tried many times to explain to You & others that I can sent
netmail only to points in Z1, but folks from Z1 don't appear to
understand why :Q

Denis

This reply doesn't indicate it was forwarded... but it looks as if you cut & pasted a message to Alexander, then did a bit of rewording. You may have guessed, quite correctly, that a pair of old schoolteachers wouldn't take long to figure out what you'd done! I gather messages from E_T are showing up in your netmail. Years ago, when you were communicating via 2:5030/2404 *and* using a different message editor, you replied to me & to various others in the echo with our own words identified quite clearly & appropriately. I'd like to be able to help you do it again. Since there's more than one variable in this case, however, I can't be sure from the other side of the Arctic Ocean what is going on. Maybe your "boss node", Vitaliy Geydeko at 2:5064/54, could help.


When the name of Vitaliy's system appeared in the nodelist, BTW, I understood why you were curious about Wits' End. The word "wit" is defined as intelligence & quick understanding, especially when used in the plural, but is probably most often associated with remarks which other people find amusing or entertaining. A person at his/her "wits' end", AKA "wit's end", is in a state of confusion because they've reached the limits of their brain power.... :-))




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Hi, Denis! Recently you wrote in netmail to Ardith Hinton:

Years ago, when you were communicating via 2:5030/2404
*and* using a different message editor, you replied to
me & to various others in the echo with our own words
identified quite clearly & appropriately.

Yes, that's the ticket! It's been a long time since I tried GoldED ... but I was quite sure any version would let you quote in such a manner. :-)

I'm also quite sure, from noticing what tends to happen WRT various French & German accent marks which are still used occasionally in English, that although many people who want to be able to type in Russian prefer CP866 2 they often switch to Latin-1 2 or IBMPC 2 when they want to communicate with readers from Over Here. I make references to French because a lot of educated Russians understand the language. But I spell out words such as caf‚ (c- a- f- e acute) when I'm writing in English because other folks from Russia have indicated they have difficulty reading them. IOW, there are ways around such things & they're the least of my worries in your case.

AFAIC the remaining issue is why you can't answer messages from the E_T echo or the COOKING echo in the same place. If there is a misconfiguration somewhere between here & there, I'm not qualified to fix things like that. ;-)




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