Re: Got mail. How do I reply?

On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 14:38:29 +0300, Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> wrote:

Andreas Kohlbach:

A mail just rolled in "Is it true that you are dead?".
How do you reply to these? ;-)

>
A good example is the answer of Joseph Stalin to a British
reporter's enquiry through the Soviet Embassy:
 Dear sir,
 as I have learned from foreign press, I have long left
 this sinful world and moved into the other one.  Since one
 cannot mistrust the messages of foreign press, if you wish
 to remain among civilised people, I enjoin you to believe
 these messages and not to disturb by rest in the quiet of
 the other world.

(using Tor Browser 13.0.16)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_1936

October 26, 1936 (Monday)
Joseph Stalin responded to rumors that he was dead by releasing a handwritten
note that read: "I know from reports of the foreign press that I long ago
abandoned this sinful world and moved into the other world. As one cannot
doubt such foreign press dispatches unless he wants to be expelled from the
list of civilized people, I request you to believe them and don't disturb me
in the calm of the other world. With respect, J. Stalin."[52]
"Mark Twain Outdone by Dictator Stalin on Report of Death". Chicago Daily
Tribune. October 27, 1936. p. 1.

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Ioseb Besarionis dze Dzhugashvili was born to Vissarion Ivanovich & Yekaterina
Georgiyevna-Dzhugashvili at the simple, earthen-brick-and-wood house (44E06:48,
41N59:13; museum since 1937) Wednesday 18 December 1878(AA/BR/bio). Assumption
of Virgin Mary Cathedral (44E06:38,41N59:11; baptised Sunday 29 December 1878).

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prematurely_reported_obituaries

Mark Twain: American author, was falsely reported dead twice:
In 1897 when a journalist was sent to inquire after Twain's health, thinking
he was near death; in fact it was his cousin who was very ill. Although
(contrary to popular belief) no obituary was published, Twain recounted the
event in the New York Journal of June 2, 1897, including his famous words
"The report of my death was an exaggeration" (which is usually misquoted, e.g.
as "The rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated", or "Reports of my
death are greatly exaggerated").[474][475]
On May 4, 1907, when people lost track of a yacht he was traveling on, The
New York Times published an article saying he might have been lost at sea.
[476] In fact, the yacht had been held up by fog, and Twain had disembarked.
Twain read the article, and cleared up the story by writing a humorous account
in The New York Times the following day.[477]
Twain died in 1910.

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born to John Marshall & Jane Casey
Lampton-Clemens in a rented two-room cabin (now museum 91W47:09,
39N29:18) in the "nearly invisible village" of Florida Missouri
on Monday 30 November 1835 (biography, time of birth unsourced).