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   Lister to ang.rosin@gmail.com   
   Re: I feel violated.   
   17 Mar 08 18:17:24   
   
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   From: fache@SPAMclara.net   
      
   On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:01:02 -0700 (PDT), ang.rosin@gmail.com wrote:   
      
   >I'm going to a science fiction convention [1] on Friday which has a   
   >number of Blakes 7 related items as it's 30 years since it started   
   >showing.  Only then I realised that it was 20 years since Red Dwarf   
   >was first shown and so I thought it might be fun to go to this year's   
   >Dimension Jump.  Except looking at the Red Dwarf fan club pages it   
   >doesn't look there is going to be one (boo!).   
   >   
   >*Then* the page says:   
   >   
   >"This is the only Official get-together of fans, but once you start   
   >making friends in the Red Dwarf community you will find that they   
   >organise their own get-together's. These gets-together's could be   
   >anywhere in the world but have been generally become to be known as   
   >'local meets'. Local meets in the past have been based in Liverpool,   
   >Manchester, York, London, Birmingham, Victoria (Australia). We're sure   
   >that there have been many more but that's all we can remember. If you   
   >want to find, or organise a 'local meet', visit some of the links in   
   >our Communication Zone and get meeting some fans and have fun."   
   >   
   >   
   >The cheek!  Most of these meets were arranged through atvrd and had   
   >only a tenuous link to the fanclub at best.  Atvrd isn't even   
   >mentioned on the linked to "communication zone".  The fan club's own   
   >bulletin board was, though, although the last post appears to have   
   >been made on 12th March making it only marginally more active than   
   >here.   
   >   
   >Anyways.  Hi guys.  Any news about the film?   
   >   
   >Ang   
   >   
   >[1] It is my tragedy that I have become a "fan"   
      
      
      
   The film was last week, yadda yadda   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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