fictionary@plover.com still down

[Frances Poodry]

You can take the FPoodry at aol.com address off the list.  That has been
defunct for several years now.
-Fran
(fpoodry at speakeasy.net)


On 2/10/08 2:03 PM, "eLLioTT morEton" <emoreton at alum.swarthmore.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm sending this message to all of the email addresses I could find in the
> past three years or so of my saved fictionary at plover.com emails.
> Apologies in advance to anyone whose is getting multiple copies; I judged
> it more important to make sure that you got the message.  Apolgies also to
> anyone who has problems with the long "To:" list, but I think it's
> important that we all have each other's email addresses.
> 
> Email to fictionary at plover.com has been disappearing:  When I send a
> message (I am the current wordmeister), it doesn't bounce, but listmembers
> don't get it.  I first noticed the problem on Jan. 12th.  I emailed
> postmaster at plover.com about it on the 17th.  I received no answer, but the
> list was working normally on Jan. 23rd.  However, it was down again on
> Jan. 30th, and all of my attempts to use it since then have failed in the
> same way.  Jean-Joseph was kind enough to supply me with two phone numbers
> for a "Mark J. Dominus" in Philadelphia, from whitepages.com.  One, listed
> as a business number, turned out to be the Something Quarter Club (``All
> of our operators are assisting other members right now''---with what, I
> wouldn't venture to speculate), the other, listed as a home number, got a
> recording saying it had been disconnected.
> 
> (1) Does anyone out there have any idea what is the matter, or how to get
> ahold of mjd without going through plover.com?
> 
> I hope this just turns out to be a temporary glitch with plover.com, and
> that we can soon complete the OWLING round.  (I'm still accepting ballots,
> by the way, since I wasn't able to send out the final reminders.)  But if
> not, we'll need to implement the Continuity of Fictionary Plan, which
> means we'll need to make that plan.  So:
> 
> (2) If fictionary at plover.com is permanently down, we will need to look for
> new diggings elsewhere.  To do that, we will need a list of current email
> addresses of listmembers, which we can't get from plover.com because it's
> down.  I hereby volunteer to collect those email addresses.
> 
>    *  If you have *left* fictionary at plover.com and do not want to be
> included on any new list, please let me know that.
>    *  If you are receiving this message more than once, please let me know
> so that I can delete unwanted duplicate addresses.
>    *  If you know any *lurkers* who are on the list, but who do not send
> mail to the list (and hence whose email addresses my harvesting pass would
> not have found), please direct them to me.
> 
> Regards,
> em
> 
> 
> [Anyone who knows mjd:  These are the two addresses that Jean-Joseph found
> for him.  Are they actually his?  Is he all right?]
> 
>> plover.com implies that he lives in the Philadelphia area.  whitepages.com
>> has two listings in Pennsylvania for the last name Dominus:
>> 
>> _Mark J Dominus 
>> <http://www.whitepages.com/search/Replay?search_id=71071433099703677164&lower
>> =1&more_info=1>_
>> work
>> 1628 Chestnut St
>> Philadelphia, PA 19103-5119
>> (212) 575-0006
> 
>> Mark J & Richard J Dominus
>> <http://www.whitepages.com/search/Replay?search_id=71071433099703677164&lower
>> =2&more_info=1> 
>> home
>> 775 N 24th St
>> Philadelphia, PA 19130-2540
>> (215) 978-5986
>