[OGD] Latest Computer Virus

Further to a couple of posts re e-mails in German, I had one slip through our system too. I took it up with our IT people and this is their response: "It's junk from either the Sober.Q or Sober.P email worms going off on the internet. So far no infections" Colin Hamilton Purchasing/Finance Offic

[OGD] Viruses on the list

Various people have been getting a virus and spam .  I am the next one. Although I got negative input when I said that viruses, spam, etc, started up again after I had joined the list last time, I can now tell you that my suspicion was right. Again, since I have returned to the list I get an h

[OGD] orchids / development (Malaysia)

FYI : "CAMERON HIGHLANDS [see a map : http://home.arcor.de/griesbeck/Reise1/Map_rt.jpg] : While new exotic species and variants of the orchid have been unearthed, more still could be lost forever due to unsustainable development. Embi Abdullah, a local orchid specialist, claims that ... the orch

[OGD] utility project / Isotria medeoloides

FYI : "The possible existence of a rare wild orchid has delayed digging for a $17 million public utilities project in New Kent County [Virginia, US] for six months. ... certified experts will be able to tell if the small whorled pogonia [Isotria medeoloides] exists in the project area ... If it

Re: [OGD] virus....the computer kind

Eric,   I have been "visited by the Germans" as well, but those emails have come to a work email address that nobody here has ever seen, while I've gotten none at this address... Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.comPlants, Supplies, Artwork, Books and Lots of Free Info!    

[OGD] virus....the computer kind

I guess that one of those viruses is out there again (as usual?), the kind that copy address books and send out loads of garbage in the names of people in them...I have been hit by loads of "mail returned" ,etcnot to mention lots of it spam...most of it German. Included with the mail return mes

[OGD] Alleged kovachii victim

From: "Dr. Braem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I don't quite get the story ... what is Mr. Shwan Farr complaining about? Did he get fired?? Did he have to leave explicitly because of "kovachii". The story is vague And who claims that "the orchid World is the equivalent of Drug smuggling"?? **

[OGD] LABEL PUZZLE

I hope someone can help me decipher the label of a plant that was part of a large collection donated to our local orchid society.  The hand-written label appears to say FM? HAUK NEW BRA INNERPLAME.  The third symbol, written here as ?, is smudged and cannot be read.  The plant is small and l

[OGD] alleged kovachii victum

Dr Bream wrote: The story is vague And who claims that "the orchid World is the equivalent of Drug smuggling"?? Are we all going to sit back and take this crap??? Who is the Idiot at the Pittsburgh Post Gazette who wrote the nonsense.< My comments: The article clearly states: "... It sou

[OGD] [Orchids Digest V7 #255] Re: Lankesteriana article

My sincere thanks to Kathy [Barrett], Viateur [Boutot] and Ralf [Käppel], for your help in locating an article published in Lankesteriana, 4(3), 2004. With best regards, Simon M. Wellinga Heerenveen, The Netherlands / EU From: "S.M. Wellinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [OGD] Lankesteriana ar

[OGD] Re: bees

I saw an oddity on British television last night on which people on this network may be able to expand. The program was concerned with the life and times of the Brazil nut, including its pollinators. These Euglossine bees were shown visiting an orchid, which with my admitted ignorance of South Ame