Re: [sumo] Sumo and its People

[Doreen Simmons <jz8d-smmn@asahi-net.or.jp>]

At 4:41 PM -0700 03.10.14, Masumi wrote:
> Joe, Earle, and Yuko-san:
>
> Thank you for remembering me from old days.
> I'm still on the list, but rarely follow the discussion because I spend a lot
> of time just deleting the unbelievable amount of junk mail.


It's good to hear from Masumi-san again.

I am not very mathematically minded, but on Sunday I found that I had 
downloaded exactly 100 messages, so I went through counting -- and 55 were 
obvious spam. If, as his remark suggests, the spam is mostly getting 
through on this list, can't something be done about it?  Some other lists 
I'm on seem to have efficient spam filters that hardly anything gets 
through.

> By the way, I was at Kokugikan early September, but I was very busy with my
> daughter and got there after 5 o'clock and surprisingly they refused to give
> us free seats at the top row. I bet there are plenty of empty seats up
> there. In fact, I was not at all surprised and actually that was the way I
> expected. Ha Ha Ha...

Letting people in free near the end of the day used to be done at the old 
Kuramae Kokugikan, but I've never heard of it happening at the new one. You 
have to consider that a lot of people only want to watch the best bouts; if 
you let people in free just for the last hour, you'll be mobbed at the last 
minute and the place will be even emptier early on!

Sorry I missed you this time, Masumi.  The visiting fans have separated 
into little groups and we don't seem to have those get-together dinners we 
all used to have.




~Doreen Simmons
     <jz8d-smmn@asahi-net.or.jp>~
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