rec.juggling, was Re: internal spring in seatpost

[Bert Neff]

>Julian Orbach (julian@cs.uq.oz.au> wrote:
>>(Please, no arguments about whether unicyclists or jugglers are like clowns.
>>There is enough of that in rec.juggling at the moment.)
>
>We are as much like clowns as we want, or appear, to be. Since unicycles are
>often associated with the circus, many people will not see anything other than
>that. It's up to us to change their perceptions.
>
>How can a dummy like me hook up to rec.juggling? Somebody please lemme know.
>
>Thanks, unics!
>
>John Foss, President International Unicycling Federation unifoss@cerfnet.com
>
If you don't have access through a news reader, then there are two options:
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2) www - if you have a world-wide-web reader, such as Mosaic, then you can read
from the URL 'http://www.hal.com/services/juggle/', otherwise known as
juggle@hal.com, serviced by Barry Bakalar. (I'm not sure how to spell his
last name so I just went with all 'a's).

There's generally about 30 messages a day?? in this group. Don't post anything
rashly or Andrew Conway (the self-appointed humbler of newbies) is sure to flame
you. They talk about anything - juggling, unicycling, diablos, devil sticks,
torches, contact juggling, yo-yos, whip cracking and rope tricks (er, skills),
and knife throwing. Magic and miming are sort of taboo though, and there was the
aforementioned recent controversy over what place clowning has for jugglers).

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[Your Friendly Neighborhood Juggler]

I find the Conway comment very true. Not that I have been personally flamed but
he is rather flame-happy. Beware of lots of inside jokes as well.

JIP (Juggle In Peace) A man is talking to the Lord, trying to fathom His
infinitude. "Lord," he asks, "what's a million years to you?" "A million years
is a second to me," the Lord explains. "And a million dollars?" A penny, the
Lord replies. "Lord," the man proceeds to ask, emboldened, "would you give me a
million dollars?" "Sure," the Lord replies. "Just a second." (From COLORED
PEOPLE, 1994, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)
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On Fri, 9 Dec 1994, Bert Neff wrote:

>
> >Julian Orbach (julian@cs.uq.oz.au> wrote:
> >>(Please, no arguments about whether unicyclists or jugglers are like clowns.
> >>There is enough of that in rec.juggling at the moment.)
> >
> >We are as much like clowns as we want, or appear, to be. Since unicycles are
> >often associated with the circus, many people will not see anything other
> >than that. It's up to us to change their perceptions.
> >
> >How can a dummy like me hook up to rec.juggling? Somebody please lemme know.
> >
> >Thanks, unics!
> >
> >John Foss, President International Unicycling Federation unifoss@cerfnet.com
> >
> If you don't have access through a news reader, then there are two options:
> 1) e-mail - send a message with the single word 'HELP' to 'pnfi.forestry.ca'
> to get instructions on how to subscribe, -or-
> 2) www - if you have a world-wide-web reader, such as Mosaic, then you can
> read from the URL 'http://www.hal.com/services/juggle/', otherwise known as
> juggle@hal.com, serviced by Barry Bakalar. (I'm not sure how to spell his
> last name so I just went with all 'a's).
>
> There's generally about 30 messages a day?? in this group. Don't post anything
> rashly or Andrew Conway (the self-appointed humbler of newbies) is sure to
> flame you. They talk about anything - juggling, unicycling, diablos, devil
> sticks, torches, contact juggling, yo-yos, whip cracking and rope tricks (er,
> skills), and knife throwing. Magic and miming are sort of taboo though, and
> there was the aforementioned recent controversy over what place clowning has
> for jugglers).
>
>  /
>
> \ 0 | Bert Neff --|-- bneff@melpar.esys.com
> | Leesburg, Virginia USA
> / \

[Bert Neff]

John Foss writes:
>
>>If you don't have access through a news reader, then there are two options:
>>1) e-mail - send a message with the single word 'HELP' to 'pnfi.forestry.ca'
>> to get instructions on how to subscribe, -or-
>>2) www - if you have a world-wide-web reader, such as Mosaic, then you can
>> read from the URL 'http://www.hal.com/services/juggle/', otherwise known as
>> juggle@hal.com, serviced by Barry Bakalar. (I'm not sure how to
>spell
>> his last name so I just went with all 'a's).
>
>Barry Bakalor is the correct spelling, I believe.
>
>Thanks for the info! If I send for help via email, should the full address be
><rec.juggling@pnfi.forestry.ca>? Like I said, I'm an internet retard. I also
>have mosaic, though I don't really know what I'm doing with it, and I'm not
>sure how to save files to my own computer . . .
>
No, no, no. The e-mail address, oops, I see, uh, my bad. Send the single word
'HELP' (no subject needed) to 'listserv@pnfi.forestry.ca'. From there you can
subscribe and send posts to 'juggling@pnfi.forestry.ca'. (commands and posts
(articles) go to two separate accounts at the same host machine, as is the case
with apparently all list servers).

For WWW/Mosaic, there'll be the far left menu option 'File' under which is open
URL. Select that and type in the URL I mentioned above. Also under file is the
save option (can't remember exact wording offhand), and you can enter the file
name you want to save the current page as. It'll save the whole page, not just
what you can see on the screen.  /

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