From: owner-basia-digest To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V1 #85 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Tuesday, 9 April 1996 Volume 01 : Number 085 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: basia-digest V1 #83 Re: basia-digest V1 #84 Interesting Free Offer........ Check out the Sony Basia Page: it is new!!! Re: WHOA!!!! Re: Peter Bianco Whoa! Two Points for Sony Re: Check out the Sony Basia Page: it is new!!! Re: Trivia!! Re: Trivia!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ExcusezMoi@aol.com Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 03:14:55 -0400 Subject: Re: basia-digest V1 #83 juan sed: >> Danny, the workaholic << Whozat????????? Must have him confused with PW! :) JS (& others) sed: >> Excuse me while I go shoot myself in the head. << EVERYBODY, consider this before you decide to check out (heh!), Peter is so much into his own world and so removed from what Basia & Danny do that he just might have gotten it wrong... I happen to think his story is likely, considering Danny & Basia's work habits (which we are all -- sigh! -- much too familiar with!). ;-) Pardon me for asking, but just who exactly told you all it was going to be a full-blown Basia album? (I had been 'unsubscribed to the list for a while and when I came back you were all talking about WOM already) If it's a compilation thing, it might be something to raise money for some worthy cause (like the "Disappointed (again!) (but still loyal!) and Mentally Unstable Basia Fans Society"?). :) and I echo that lest someone misses it :) :) :) (had a communique from someone - not on this list - who just didn't understand my brand of humor, and it turned out he didn't understand "smileys"!) Everybody just "hold your water" (NPI) (yeh, right!), I'm sure the full story will surface sooner or later! - --Di. ------------------------------ From: ExcusezMoi@aol.com Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 03:15:07 -0400 Subject: Re: basia-digest V1 #84 juan sed: >> (anybody got any typewriter samples?) << Say, I remember seeing something on AOL, let me take a peek in their software downloads and maybe I'll find it again! ;-) If all else fails, I have a 1940's black cast iron (WOM, the heavy metal psycho typewriter mambo mix!) "newspaper reporter" model typewriter that might still work If I give it a squirt of lubricant! (now where did I put my microphones?????) :) Irrepressably, - --Di. ------------------------------ From: JohnChen00@aol.com Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 03:44:58 -0400 Subject: Interesting Free Offer........ - --------------------- Forwarded message: Subj: Interesting Free Offer........ Date: 96-04-08 02:45:01 EDT From: JohnChen00 To: announcement.service@r1.f62.n8669.z303.fidonet.org - -----> NOTE: Please first read my note which appears below the "Request for more info Form." Then, to get more info, just fill out the "Request for More Info" form completely and *FAX* or *SMAIL* it back to the company. You will get a quick reply via email within 1 business day of receipt of the info request form below. IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR THOSE FAXING IN THEIR REPLY: Please make sure you return *only* the below form and *no part* of this message other than the actual form below. If you do not know how to cut and paste the below form onto a fresh clean blank page for faxing, then you may re-type the below form, as long as you copy it line for line *exactly.* This is necessary in order for them to be able to process the tremendous number of replies that they get daily. Your fax goes directly onto their 4.2 gigabyte computer hard drive, not paper, and all incoming fax calls are set-up to be *auto-terminated* and/or *auto-deleted* from the incoming queue of faxes to be read, if your fax: 1. has a cover page; 2. is more than one page 3. is sent more than one time 4. does not begin with the "cut here/begin" line from the below form 5. does not end with the "cut here/end" line from the below form. 6. has any handwritten info. on it (info must must be filled out *only* with your computer keyboard or typewriter keyboard). This last provision re: no handwriting on the form applies to requests sent in via smail also. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ NOTE: Their fax line is open 24 hrs. per day / 7 days per week. However, if you have trouble getting through due to the high volume of overseas faxes coming in during the early morning and late night hours, please note that the best time to get through to their fax is Monday-Friday, 9 am - 5 pm EST (New York Time). If you have trouble getting through to their fax, or do not have a fax machine at work or at home, just drop the below form to them via smail (airmail or first class mail). ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ *------------cut here/begin-------------------------------------------* REQUEST FOR MORE INFO: please return *only* this section (with no cover page) via 1-page fax to: 718-967-1550 in the USA or via smail (first class mail or airmail) to: Magazine Club Inquiry Center Att. FREE Catalogue-by-email Dept. PO Box 990 Staten Island NY 10312-0990 Sorry, but incomplete forms *will not* be acknowledged. If you do not have an email address, or access to one, they will not be able to help you until you do have one. If you saw this message, then you should have one. :) - ---> SORRY, BUT NO HANDWRITTEN FORMS WILL BE ACKNOWLEDGED. MUST BE TYPED-OUT ON YOUR COMPUTER OR TYPEWRITER. <--- Name: Internet email address: Smail home address: City-State-Zip: Country: Work Tel. #: Work Fax #: Home Tel. #: Home Fax #: How did you hear about us (name of person who referred you or the area of the internet that you saw us mentioned in): Referral by: John Chen. 040896-l-ifo Name of USA mags you currently get on the newsstand or in the store: Name of USA mags you currently get on the newsstand or in the store: Name of USA mags you currently get on a subscription basis, through the mail: Name of USA mags you would like price quotes on when we call you: Catalogue format desired (list "1," "2," "3" or "4"): *------------cut here/end--------------------------------------------* Catalogue Format Options: 1. 19-Part email- can be read by EVERYONE (~525 K Total). 2. For more advanced computer users: attached text file ~525K - you must know how to download an attached text file and then be able to open it with your word processor. If in doubt, don't ask for this version. This isn't for internet *newbies.* Better to order option 1 and spend a few minutes pasting them into one whole text document with your word processor, than to waste hours trying to figure how to deal with this option. 3. For more advanced Macintosh computer users: compressed attached text file, created with a Stuffit(tm) self-extracting archive (.sea), ~133K. Can be decompressed by any Macintosh computer user; no special expansion software or knowledge of Stuffit (tm) needed. You just double-click on the file icon and it automatically expands (unstuffs). This is for more advanced mac computer users only, as you still have to know how to deal with an attached file. It will cut your download time by 75%. Expands out to the same ~525K file in option #2. See option #2 for more info on what you will need to be able to do. 4. For expert computer users: compressed attached text file, created with Stuffit(tm), ~114K. Can be decompressed by any computer user who has expansion software to decompress (expand) Stuffit(tm) (.sit) files. This is for more advanced computer users only and will cut your download time by 78%. Expands out to the same ~525K file in option #2. See option #2 for more info on what you will need to be able to do. Hi fellow 'netters, My name is John Chen and I recently started using a magazine subscription club in the USA that has a FREE 1 yr. magazine subscription deal with your first paid order- and I have been very pleased with them. They have over 1,500 different USA titles that they can ship to any country on a subscription basis. As for computer magazines from the USA, they more of a selection than I ever knew even existed. They have magazines for most every area of interest in their list of 1,500 titles. Within the USA, for their USA members, they are cheaper than all their competitors and even the publishers themselves. This is their price guarantee. Overseas, on the average, they are generally around one-fourth to one-half of what the newsstands overseas charge locally for USA magazines. On some titles they are as little as one-tenth of what the newsstands charge. They feel that mgazines should not be a luxury overseas. In the USA, people buy magazines and then toss them after reading them for just a few minutes or hours. They are so cheap in the USA! Well, this company would like to make it the same way for their overseas members. They are also cheaper than all their competitors in the USA and overseas, including the publishers themselves! This is their price guarantee. Around one-half their business comes from overseas, so they are very patient with new members who only speak limited English as a 2nd language. Their prices are so cheap because they deal direct with each publisher and cut-out all the middlemen. They will send you their DELUXE EMAIL CATALOGUE (around 525K-big and juicey) !)...if you completely fill out the form above. It has lists of all the freebies, lists of all the titles they sell, titles broken down by categories and detailed descriptions on nearly 1,200 of the titles that they sell. Please do not email me as I am just a happy customer and a *busy* student. I don't have time to even complete my thesis in time, let alone run my part-time software business! Please fill out the above form and carefully follow the intructions above to get it to them via fax or smail. They guarantee to beat all their competitors' prices. Sometimes they are less than half of the next best deal I have been able to find and other times, just a little cheaper - but I have never found a lower rate yet. They assured me that if I ever do, they will beat it. They have been very helpful and helped me with all my address changes as I haved moved from one country to another. They have a deal where you can get a free 1 yr. sub to a new magazine from a special list of over 295 popular titles published in the USA. They will give you this free 1 yr. sub when you place your first paid order with them to a renewal or new subscription to any of the over 1,500 different popular USA titles they sell. They can arrange delivery to virtually any country and I think they have clients in around 45 or 46 countries now. Outside the USA there is a charge for FPH (foreign postage and handling) (on both paid and freebie subs) that varies from magazine to magazine. I have found their staff to be very friendly and courteous. They even helped me with an address change when I moved from one country to another. The owner thinks of his service as a "club" and his clients as "members" (even though there is no extra fee to become a member - your first purchase automatically makes you a member) and he is real picky about who he accepts as a new member. When he sets you up as a new member, he himself calls you personally on the phone to explain how he works his deal, or sometimes he has one of his assistants call. He is kind of quirky sometimes - he insists on setting up new members by phone so he can say hi to everyone (I sure wouldn't want to have his phone bills!), but you can place future orders (after your first order) via E-mail. He has some really friendly young ladies working for him, who seem to know just as much as he does about this magazine stuff. If you live overseas, he will even call you there, as long as you are interested, but I think he still makes all his overseas calls on the weekends, I guess cause the long distance rates are cheaper then. He only likes to take new members from referrals from satisfied existing members and he does virtually no advertising. When I got set-up, they had a 2-3 week waiting list for new members to be called back so that they could join up. (Once you are an existing member, they help you immediately when you call. ) I think they are able to get back to prospective new members the same day or within a few days now, as they have increased their staff. I am not sure about this.........but if you email the above form to them, that is the way to get started! They will send you their DELUXE EMAIL CATALOGUE (around 525K-big and juicey) !)...if you completely fill out the form above. It has lists of all the freebies, lists of all the titles they sell, titles broken down by categories and detailed descriptions on nearly 1,200 of the titles that they sell. They then send you email that outlines how his club works and the list of free choices that you can choose from, as well as the entire list of what he sells; and then they will give you a quick (3-5 minute) friendly, no-pressure no-obligation call to explain everything to you personally and answer all your questions. Once you get in, you'll love them. I do. Sincerely, John Chen ------------------------------ From: kenneth.drew.3@nd.edu (Ken Drew) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 09:39:07 -0500 Subject: Check out the Sony Basia Page: it is new!!! Hey guys: The Sony Basia has been updated. It actually looks as if there may be some news. You can sign up for the fan club- yeah we'll see......Anyway, Ben's page is linkd there as well. Cool. See ya.... KEN (kdrew@nd.edu) - ----------------------------------------------------------- *The Beat Farmers : WWW page at: * *http://www.ucsd.edu/sdam/artists/bf/ * *Webb Wilder : check these guys out! * - ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: akb02@rs1.rrz.uni-koeln.de (Dirk Pilat) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 17:43:39 +0200 Subject: Re: WHOA!!!! At 0:58 Uhr 07.04.1996, J.S. Lohr wrote assumingly looking like Kurt Cobain post mortem: > >Welp, there's always 1998!!!! > > > Maybe that'ts the date for the long hoped for MB - live album? Dirk Dirk Pilat, Medical Student 6 months before graduation | University of Cologne, FRG Fax: ++ 49221 4201000 | http://www.rrz.uni-koeln.de/~akb02 Member of the Internet Dermatology Society | Maintainer of the Matt Bianco Mailinglist ------------------------------ From: akb02@rs1.rrz.uni-koeln.de (Dirk Pilat) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 17:43:35 +0200 Subject: Re: Peter Bianco Ola! At 10:41 Uhr 06.04.1996, J.S. Lohr wrote: > And wasn't most >of Basia's backup band off touring with Incognito during this period of >time? Not in Europe! The "100 and rising " tour was done with an entirely new lineup, except for Bluie, G.Harvey and P. Hines, the "Backbone" of Incognito. Neither Fayyaz Virji nor Kevin Robinson were on the European lineup, as their input on the "100.."-album was quite tiny (One song, I think) Dirk Dirk Pilat, Medical Student 6 months before graduation | University of Cologne, FRG Fax: ++ 49221 4201000 | http://www.rrz.uni-koeln.de/~akb02 Member of the Internet Dermatology Society | Maintainer of the Matt Bianco Mailinglist ------------------------------ From: "J.S. Lohr" Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 15:40:19 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Whoa! Two Points for Sony Welp, I guess we know what they think of Ben's homepage now... Now, what is this stuff about the WWW Fan club? Ken's original post had my hopes up that it might've been the original stealth fan club, but it appears to be nothing more than some hack job by Sony (at least they try). Maybe someone should post the mailing list address on that "newsgroup" thing they have set up. Toodles! JSL. This is... ============================================================================= Like ohmigod! Roach has a homepage! Find him at the Internet Roach Motel!!!!! ============================================================================= "http://zeus.towson.edu/~jlohr1" Dig up all the dirt on Agitprop's Finest Son, the Net's most famous Roach, and Wal-Mart's Biggest Pain-in-the-ass. ============================================================================= note: the page is unfinished - please excuse some of the cruddy links! -Roach ============================================================================= ...the end. ------------------------------ From: "J.S. Lohr" Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 15:52:09 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Check out the Sony Basia Page: it is new!!! On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, Ken Drew wrote: > The Sony Basia has been updated. It actually looks as if there may be some > news. BTW, what's this stuff about Basia touring Europe? JSL. ------------------------------ From: "J.S. Lohr" Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 15:55:27 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Trivia!! On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, Dirk Pilat wrote: > Little trivia for you out there: > > Who spilled Yoghurt on Mark Reilly Jacket at the European Music awards??? > (and was then kicked by M.R. in the $%&/ before 100 million viewers????) Umm....Bjork? Englebert Humperdink? Rosemary Clooney? :D I give up. JSL. ------------------------------ From: "J.S. Lohr" Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 23:05:03 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Trivia!! On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, Philip B Hall wrote: > On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, Dirk Pilat wrote: > > > Yo! > > > > Little trivia for you out there: > > > > Who spilled Yoghurt on Mark Reilly Jacket at the European Music awards??? > > (and was then kicked by M.R. in the $%&/ before 100 million viewers????) > > > > Dirk > > > > Figures. > What the hell are you guys talking about? JSL. ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V1 #85 **************************