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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: Today's interesting development
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 01:21:39 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <17e4b0e7cba747c0$17833$3494482$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com>,
Michael Benveniste  <mhb@murkyether.com> wrote:
>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
>
I own a copy of the book that got withdrawn as a result. Neither 
author published much after that.



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