Any ideas besides Ebay for selling vintage wine? I have aobut 30.

where are you located?

winebid.com

Dimitri

Are these cases or bottles?

Bi!!

Hartford, CT.

Mark Lipton

Mark,

Is there a reason why you feel you should answer the question directed to me? I am located in Westport, CT. 79 miles from were Mr. Lipton has put his thumb tack. Reading internet headers is old Mark.

Also to answer the case question. No... these are bottles not cases.

Thank you, CSL

I am located in CT. USA

If you were much closer I would have loved to take the Lynch Bages off your hands. Sorry.

Also, I looked at your header...how does Mark L read the header and find Connecticut. I could not find at all?

At least half of these wines should be drunk immediately, if not sooner, eg, all the 81, 83, 84, and 87 Bordeaux. Also, I suspect the 83 Freemark Abbey and the 86 Le Bon Pasteur may be a little past their prime.

I don't know how much you drink wine, but this is not a very large collection. Since much of this wine is becoming geriatric, you might consider locally selling or auctioning the choice bottles (eg Lynch Bages and Chateauneuf du Pape), and drinking the elderly wines (mentioned above). Or you might unload the older wines with your local merchant if (s)he wants them.

If you drink a fair amount of wines with meals and parties, you could make a dent in this collection on your own, or by throwing a party. Just don't expect big money if you decide to sell the older wines, such as Boyd Cantenac 84, Mouton Baron Philippe 87.

Tom Schellberg

Dick, Nothing magical here. I just resolved the IP number found in the NNTP-Posting-Host header record. The host name in this case was quite informative (91.hartford-20rh15-16rt.ct.dial-access.att.net). It doesn't take a genius to figure out where that is likely to be located ;-) although the OP seems to have been mortally offended that it was 80 miles off. Since not all host names are so rich in geographic information, you can also use the traceroute utility to follow the hops that the Internet takes in getting from your computer to theirs: very often the names of the servers involved in the intermediate hops will give you detailed information about their location, which helps place the destination host. This may all seem arcane and pointless, but is very useful when dealing with spammers (and took me all of

I protest these revelations of location technique. Mark, you give away the goodies for free, then how is a semi-honest wizard to make a living? ("... The better to commune with the infinite," as the "little man" in the wagon pattered, early in the film of _The Wonderful Wizard of Oz._)

It is useful (though might not fool a good wizard) to have plural, or even several, Internet providers and email addresses, geographically diverse -- keeps 'em guessing on these new "WWW" interfaces. (An esteemed, highly accomplished European-émigré co-worker once said, and he knew whereof he spoke: "You can never have too many bank accounts, or too many passports." Not the same immigrant I cited earlier on another newsgroup who said " ... vreedom will zeeeease to exist," but another, from not far away.)

-- "The WWW world consists of documents, and links." -- Tim Berners-Lee, Message-ID: , 6 Aug 91 16:00:12 GMT, Subject: WorldWideWeb: Summary. [Usenet's introduction to the idea of a "Web" of linked documents.]

LOL! Max, I haven't worn my wizard's hat for over a decade now, as I pursue the brass ring here at Purdue. I'm sure that the point of my hat is drooping now anyway. But I've always been one to point out what lies behind the curtain, so I guess I'm an open source kinda wizard these days... ;-)

Certainly, there are several ways to evade the scrutiny of others on Usenet. Commercial services like Altopia, Teranews and several others will strip all revealing information from the headers. You can also post through the remailer network, too, though that tends not to be so user-friendly. The less ethical among us could also exploit SOCKS5 proxies or other gimmickry. One of the nice aspects of this group, though, is that most of us post "out in the open" so to speak, and little evasion is needed for the most part (except to escape spammers, may they burn in hell for all eternity [or spend a weekend watching 'American Idol' reruns]) Your co-worker's philosophy is an interesting one, but hard to pursue (legally) for an American citizen.

Mark Lipton

"Mark Lipton" in message news: snipped-for-privacy@purdue.edu...

The gentleman lived under a régime encouraging flexibility beyond the motivations typically encountered in the US. (He has now, like many others, contributed substantially to his adopted country and community.) I should mention that today, more so than a few years ago, some nations do promote dual-nationality options permitting passports. I know US citizens who have done this with various nations. A certain number of people throughout the world manage to obtain additional legal passports thus; how minutely they satisfy the nominal requirements for doing so, I could not say.