On Mon, 9 Jan 1995, L. Todd Masco wrote:
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...).
A general hint for finding authors' e-mail addresses: figure out where he/she works from the book jacket, use WHOIS to find their domain name, and then finger them or look at their web page to see if they have an e-mail directory. (Now keep this a secret! I don't want the internet.masses to find out my e-mail address when I become rich and famous! :-) I bet Vinge has written for himself a really intelligent filter like the kind he describes in AFUtD. Of course I wouldn't want to test this. I guess this is not really related to cypherpunks, except to the general philosophy of making tools to protect oneself, instead of relying on the good will (and intelligence) of others. Wei Dai