wdr@wang.com (William Ricker) (02/07/90)
I have received, by odd happenstance, an Airmail Letter addressed to Dr. Werner RICKER c/o School of Mathematics Flinders University Bedford Pk. S.A. 5042 AUSTRALIA from one Ishihara in Honjo-machi, Saga, Japan. Anyone knowing Dr. Ricker's current mailing address (postal or electronic) is requested to respond BY EMAIL to me so I can send it to him. The Happenstance, for the curious and for information: It was forwarded from Flinders to the U.of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where someone knew my address and, seeing only "Dr. W. Ricker" on the outer enveloppe with an AUSTRALIAN return address & SanFrancisco Postmark, assumed that it was for me, and sent it on to Boston. (I think I know who it was; he obviously hasn't read "Chaos: Making of a new Science" by Gleick carefully, as Dr. W.E.Ricker of Australia gets a footnote in chapter 2, p.63, as an early worker on the fractal nature of biological populations, cited in May's book; in any case, this BA-Maths is muchly complimented by the confusion. Why he thought I'd get mail from Australia addressed to UI-UC I don't know.) I would like to forward it to Dr. Werner Ricker, if I can find him; if not, I will have to return it, much delayed, to its sender. (Japanese postmark was 1989/12/18; SFran 1990/1/24; Received in Boston MA USA 1990/2/5.) Please repost to any newsgroup that you think would be amused, as increased circulation only increases my chances of finding Dr. Ricker. Please reply to any of the following paths, if you know Dr. Ricker: (uunet,samsung,harvard)!wang.wang.com!wdr wdr@wang.com wricker@northeastern.edu wricker%nuhub.acs.norteastern.edu@relay.cs.net +1 (508)967-2663 Office & Voice Mail and all the "obvious" permutations. (For that matter, any other Rickers out there interested in the geneology of Rickers can drop me a line, but please change the subject line!) --- Bill Ricker Disclaimer: Not only am I probably no provable relation, my employer probably would disapprove of this at least as much as my other net posts when they get the phone bill.