On Friday 05 October 2018 16:15:20 Felmon Davis wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Oct 2018, William Morder wrote:
> > Also, as I've pointed out before, the enigmatic Liddell (with two Ls, as
> > in Alice-in-Wonderland Liddell, as in Liddell & Scott), might not be a
> > "he" at all, as I've never noticed any clues about gender;
>
> right. I apologize for presuming. E. Liddell might be an 'it' also,
> next-few generations AI.
>
> > My own guess is that he might use the same address for something else
> > besides our mailing list, or that his name or address is similar enough
> > to an actual spammer, and gets him marked as spam because he got on some
> > master list used by Google, Zoho and others. Or something like that.
>
> what disappoints is that there should be enough clues that a spam
> filter would accept the name and address for this list.
>
> really nicht onomatopoetry that follows but I won't include it all
> just this bit,
>
> > Actually, I think that *Felmon* is probably a corruption of *fell* and
> > *man*; or as we would say nowadays, you're the fall guy.
>
> you are being too kind. 'fell' also means 'evil, deadly, cruel' as in
> 'one fell swoop', so watch out!
>
> > Another few turns on the wheel, and my soul will be in tune at last.
>
> or whittled to a nub.
>
> f.

Yeah, I was also thinking of that meaning of *fell*. Good Anglo-Saxon word. 

Bill