Sujet : Re: Today's interesting development
De : mhb (at) *nospam* murkyether.com (Michael Benveniste)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.writtenDate : 23. Jul 2024, 01:44:27
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On 7/22/2024 4:01 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
Now, I do recall a case in the 1980s, I think, where an exuberant
fan tried to buy a story he liked a Hugo, using consecutively
numbered traveller's checks to buy memberships. So people do
fuck up comprehensively. But it could also be someone really dislikes
Finalist A and wanted to make them look bad.
https://fancyclopedia.org/1989_Hugos#Consecutively_Numbered_Money_Orders-- Mike Benveniste -- mhb@murkyether.com (Clarification Required)Such commentary has become ubiquitous on the Internet and is widelyperceived to carry no indicium of reliability and little weight.(Digital Media News v. Escape Media Group, May 2014).