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From: bhayes@glacier.UUCP
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Subject: Re: A Sane Man Proposes A Time Travel Experiment
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Date: Sat, 26-Jul-86 19:35:12 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 26 19:35:12 1986
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In article <289@axiom.UUCP> gts@axiom.UUCP (Guy Schafer) writes:
>Get a bunch of detectors of all sorts [...] pick a spot [and]
>pick a time that is also precisely known [...].
>
>At the time chosen, just listen for messages coming in from the future.

Good idea.  Been done, too.  A few years ago a friend of mine got an
invitation to a party for time travelers.  It was a national mailing
[seemed to have been associated with the Church of the Subgenus] and
as far as I know no guests of honor showed up.