Re: Vinge's True Email name ?
Lou Poppler says:
I knew that old compuserve account was good for something. They list Vinge, Vernor San Diego CA 72267.2656@compuserve.com
Of course, he might have used his true name because he wanted to hear from people. Tom Clancy seems to enjoy the newsgroup created to discuss his books and he posts there regularily. Many people strive to become famous because they love the adolation of the fans. Others don't. Who knows about VV?
As Wei Dai pointed out, the hostname of Vernor Vinge's office workstation at San Diego State University can be easily determined in about 5 minutes of poking about. (He appears to have about 10-15 shells running at any given time...) I really enjoy his work. However, I've never sent him any email. The general impression I've gotten is that he prefers not to receive fan email, since it distracts him from important work. If you *really* want to send him fan mail, I recommend sending it in paper form to his publisher. First, this allows him to better handle fan mail in batches. Second, this gives his publisher some indication of interest in his work, and maybe gets him a better deal on his next book. -Anthony Garcia agarcia@neosoft.com
On Mon, 9 Jan 1995, Anthony Garcia wrote:
If you *really* want to send him fan mail, I recommend sending it in paper form to his publisher. First, this allows him to better handle
I can see your point, but since it's been asked (and you're all responsible people and he knows about killfiles) This is the address I just found in the cyberpunk faq : vinge@aztec.sdsu.edu And btw, thanks for all the replies to my True Names question. I did end end up finding it (on loan), but somehow this city's used bookstores seem to have every one of his books but True Names. Sigh... Back to crypto though, would anybody know about any more recent works on the NSA than Puzzle Palace (other than the Wired articles or the NSA handbook that was posted to the net)? For that matter, has anybody heard of a recently published book on the Canadian Security Establishment (it came out just two months ago I think, I just can't remember the author or title) or anything else on that agency? Mucho Thank you.
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If you *really* want to send him fan mail, I recommend sending it in paper form to his publisher. First, this allows him to better handle fan mail in batches. Second, this gives his publisher some indication of interest in his work, and maybe gets him a better deal on his next book.
And if you *really* want to send Vernor Vinge fan mail, and you *can't* *stand* the notion of sending it via snailmail, you can send email to his publisher: pnh@tor.com . That's the email address for Patrick Nielsen Hayden, senior editor at Tor Books. Patrick will know what to do with it. (n.b.: I don't think Patrick is actually Vinge's editor; I think [but am not sure] that Vinge's editor is Jim Frenkel, who oddly enough is married to Vernor Vinge's ex-wife, Joan Vinge.) (Cypherpunks Duncan Frissell and Sandy Sandfort may recall Patrick from his salad days in San Francisco, when he was part of the crew which took over FREEDOM TODAY and FREE MARKET REPORTER magazines in 1978.) | PROOF-READER, n: A malefactor who atones for Alan Bostick | making your writing nonsense by permitting abostick@netcom.com | the compositor to make it unintelligible. finger for PGP public key | Ambrose Bierce, THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Key fingerprint: | 50 22 FB 46 41 A3 17 9D F7 33 FF E1 4E 1C 89 79 +legal_kludge=off -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.1 iQB1AgUBLxGaoeVevBgtmhnpAQFYxQL+JqH6lhYdbhZ5uxaQS8G6dnvtLAZEt49b Ye/jJG1xpQGqsLu1wV3pCPDvo+/MUHF6dX8Jt/VaSy4aAkFz3dqm3n9btjWBwvpt LHQjBqwg70PAyiiJ9/MdYj9pUCeurFqr =5A8z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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