From: v122kzkw@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (A FROOD WHO SURE KNOWS WHERE HIS TOWEL IS)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: zb: Re: Let's get DNA on the Net!
Date: 6 Nov 92 16:48:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Nov5.015723.5059@alf.uib.no>, bjornts@ii.uib.no (Bjoern Tore Sund) writes...
>In article <Bx7A1s.LIq@acsu.buffalo.edu>, v120qldp@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX) writes:
> 
>|> >Err, I have it on *very* good authority ;-) that he has one (and I don't
>|> >mean Compuserve, either ...), and that he knows about this newsgroup.
Greetings.
Trust me when I say he knows about this group. If you were reading this group
about two or three weeks ago, you would have seen in Pat's, eh I mean Zaphod's
report of our trip to see him in Toronto, that I gave him a copy of the 
group's FAQ list. (I also wrote my email address on the back)

> 
>I do have a feeling that you're wrong. If you read alt.net.personalities, article 40,
>you'll see both DNA and Terry Pratchett listed there, with mail-addresses and all.
>DNA's is:
> 
>%N Douglas Adams
>%S author "Hitchiker Guide to the Galaxy"
>%A dna@cix.compulink.co.uk
>%L His address filters mails from unknow people to him
>%L Not sure that ever read or posted to usenet, but
>%L he *does* have access to it
> 
>The listing for Terry Pratchett shows that he has his mail address on the _same_ 
>computer (cix.compulink.co.uk) as DNA, and it is clearly stated that he
>"reads and posts".
> 
>DNA seems to have been bluffing us... :-(
> 
>|> zb: | WWIVnet 1@7659 | IceNET 1@7659 | WWIVLink 1@17659 | SysOp:  Disaster Area
>|> zb: | v120qldp@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu | 14400 v.32bis * 9600 v.32 | (716)683-6657
>|> 
>|>  If you've done six impossible things today, why not top it off by calling DA?
> 
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>    ___   ___
>__  |__)   |    Bjoern Tore Sund (BT)   Quote: "Nothing!"
>    |__)   |    bjornts@ii.uib.no              - Marvin
> 
>P.S. Flame away - both on the subject of posting DNA's email-address (remember that
>I merely copied it from another posting on a different group - it was in other words
>already made public before I went along), and on my bluffing accusations (which I
>feel are quite justified...) !
Ok, I'll flame. 

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Maybe you got excited and saw that much of the post.
Perhaps you didn't see the end of the list.
Way at the end, was a section entitled "The Fakes" in large friendly letters.
The first name under that heading was Douglas Adams. It looked like this:
%N Douglas Adams
%S author "Hitchiker Guide to the Galaxy" 
(No I didn't spell it wrong. That's how it appeared in the list.)
So, whether or not this is his address, I don't know. I don't know if he
actually does have an internet address (In the interview with Larry King,
he said he was on CompuServe and on AppleLink). If he does, great. If he
doesn't, well, I guess there isn't all that much we can do about it.
Now then, I'm sure that this isn't gonna die here, as there will be people
disputing it. I don't really care. However, these are the facts, as I have read
them.
Carry on.
T.

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