From: "L. McCarthy" <lmccarth@ducie.cs.umass.edu>
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 95 23:54:29 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Vinge's True Email name ?
Message-ID: <199501090800.DAA29142@bb.hks.net>
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Todd Masco writes:
> Lou Poppler <lwp@garnet.msen.com> wrote:
> >I knew that old compuserve account was good for something.
> >They list Vinge, Vernor  San Diego CA   [email address omitted]
> Sigh.  Please don't use this, people.  I'm sure VV has no desire to 
> pay for oodles of mail telling him just how much people like him.  Treat
> it like a home phone number (of course, some people abuse home phone
> numbers of famous folks...).

I began composing a reply precisely to this effect, but was stopped by the
words "They list...". If the address appears in some standard Compu$erve
email directory, then this was hardly a major transgression.

Allow me to suggest a compromise. If some enterprising VV fan would volunteer
to collect fan mail from c'punks, then forward it all, everyone involved
might be fairly satisfied.

Disclaimer:
I'm not familiar with the details of CI$'s fee schedule; if one pays by sheer
volume and not number of messages, then obviously this approach won't alleviate
the burden. Maybe then someone could volunteer actually to ask VV whether/how
he'd like to hear from fans....

- - -L. Futplex McCarthy

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