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[pommystuart]

FYI.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/antarc ... -collapse/

[pommystuart]

A Swedish Warship Sank in 1628. It’s Still Yielding Secrets.

Well worth a visit. It has been restored to a very high degree. The stern is a work of art.

[Michael]

FYI.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/antarc ... -collapse/

[Randi]

ChatGPT invented a sexual harassment scandal and named a real law prof as the accused

[pommystuart]

FYI about Cyclones. This one broke the METs equipment.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-18/ ... /102232040

These cyclones are not in the same league as happen in the USA but it's still big for us.

[Michael]

[pommystuart]

Has anybody else received this email?

JiscMail Support <00007bdfea6f90ad-dmarc-request@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>

OLDWEATHERCOMMUNITY@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
OLDWEATHERCOMMUNITY JiscMail list is being removed.

This is a service message from JiscMail Support team to advise that OLDWEATHERCOMMUNITY will be deleted in 2 weeks’ time; the list has not been used for over 3 years. We are unable to contact the current list owners, as we cannot confirm if they are still active due to the time passed.

No further reminders will be sent by JiscMail.

If you have any questions about ownership or the changes we intend to make to this list, please contact help@jisc.ac.uk.

Please only contact help@jisc.ac.uk as emails sent to the personal Jisc emails that posted this will not be responded to. Thank you.

Kind Regards,
JiscMail Support.

[Randi]

Not me.

Given that it is in the UK, maybe it is something Philip set up?

Maybe it is something connected to the old forum? We did move over here about three years ago. However, the old forum has been used at least on occasion since then.

[Michael]

I did. I suspect it's spam. In any case, I deleted it and went on with my day.

[ggordon]

In case this might help. I ran a Whois on the domain jiscmail.ac.uk and got this result.

The domain owner: Jisc
Registered for: JISC National Academic Mailing List
Registrant address:
Lumen House
Library Avenue
Harwell
Oxfordshire
OX11 0SG
United Kingdom
+44 300 300 2212 (Phone)
domains@jisc.ac.uk

[espross]

If you look up oldweathercommunity at JISCMAIL you will see the following:

*RETAIN LIST ***This list has been retained 21/06/2016 no one can subscribe to this list and no one can post to this list � contact helpline@jiscmail.ac.uk for all enquiries regarding this list*** We would like to send out newsletters to a subset of the Zooniverse (http://www.zooniverse.org) community who participate in the Old Weather project (http://www.oldweather.org).This email list will be used to email members of the public who have agreed to receive email newsletters from us about the project.

So it appears to have been moribund since June of 2016.

I tried sending a message to it and it was rejected because my email address is not a member of the list (and according to the notice above, the list has been locked).

Eric

[pommystuart]

At https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/ I got
"Email discussion lists for the UK Education and Research communities"

[arboggs]

Whatever it was we'll just assume it's defunct. If it was something set up by Philip, you'll never get an answer out of him.

[Randi]

Happy Birthday
Sleepyowl

[Michael]

Happy Birthday, Sleepy Owl!!!

[espross]

...and ma-ny mooore!

[Morgan]

May you have the coming year of pleasant, joyful days, and nights filled with whatever a Sleepy Owl desires.
Happy Birthday,
Morgan

[sleepyowl]

Thank you for the wishes and the beautiful cake!!

[arboggs]

Happy (belated) Birthday, Sleepy Owl!

[pommystuart]

Not a common sight in Victoria, Australia.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-24/ ... /102259180

It looks better than the ones I went all the way up to northern Norway to see in the mid winter.