"zombie message" from 15 years ago

[Prof Steven P Hill]

Dear colleagues skilled at exorcising zombies & ghosts:

Tonight when I requested a couple of current messages (from the 
SEELANGS "index" for today), I received what I ordered.  

But slipping in with the legit messages, out of nowhere, was a 
zombie-message, returning from the dead after 15 years. [From 
Robert Whittaker and someone named Rich.--Text attached below.] 

Am I the only SEELANGS subscriber who occasionally is visited by 
such apparations?

Yours truly,
Steven P Hill,
University of Illinois.
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Date: Sat 30 Sep 23:13:36 CDT 2006
From: <LISTSERV at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>  
Subject: Re: GETPOST SEELANGS 
To: Steven Hill <S-HILL4 at UIUC.EDU>
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Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 09:28:48 -0400
From: Peter Steiner <psteiner at SAS.UPENN.EDU> 
Subject: Gustav Chpet et son héritage: Bordeaux, 21-22-23-24 novembre 2007 

organisé par Maryse Dennes,  Directrice du CERCS
(Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur les Civilisations Slaves)
Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3
[ .... ]
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Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:49:59 -0700
From: "B. Shir" <redorbrown at YAHOO.COM> 
Subject: Russian on-line 

Dear All: 
A person interested in Russian programs on-line tried (as
she claims) to subscribe, but failed.
Please answer her question:
<< I am interested in any programs online to help me polish
my Russian - [ .... ]
Thank you,
Nancy Gershman
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Date: Sat, 6 Apr 91 00:27:44 EST
From: Robert Whittaker <RTWLC at CUNYVM.BITNET> 
Subject: TV Schedules 

Washington U to continue getting Soviet TV schedules?  Send your
responses to him directly, rather than to the list.  = Bob Whittaker
 
----------------------------Original message----------------
Well, some bad news about TV schedules. They are to be no more.
The schedules were a by-product of the OSU Individualized Listening
Comprehension Project. Leon Twarog's grant was paying for me to
phone Moscow to get schedules so that we would know when to record
material. Well, at this point, we now have enough recordings to
last us for a while, and so we no longer need to call. I can't spend
OSU grant money unless it directly benefits the listening comprehension
project.
 On the other hand, our department would be willing to share the
responsibility for getting TV schedules with others. We would be
willing to pay the normal $10 phone costs for our connection to
Moscow, say, once every two months. Then all we would have to do
is to find 7 others who would take care of the slack the rest
of the time.
 In the future, we may need to get an occasional schedule on our own.
But we can no longer provide regular service.
 Sorry. It was a good thing while it lasted. -Rich

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