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Comment by rfarley04

16 hours ago

Ha, I was just researching early email newsletter history and came across High Weirdness By Mail - A Directory of The Fringe: Mad Prophets, Crackpots, Kooks & True Visionaries. It's literally just subscription addresses and paragraph summaries like

> "A neo-pagan publication aimed mainly at neophytes, shamans, medicine men. And women...Drawing on numerous traditions, it provides almost a survey course in such diverse topics as astrology, runecasting, elemental (magic) the I Ching, > and Chinese medicine, 75¢ each, $8/year."

https://archive.org/details/highweirdnessbym0000stan

Yup. I was going to mention that book. Boy oh boy, did I get some weirdness in the mail. One envelope was soaked in blood. I'm surprised the mail carrier delivered it.