True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier

[Lucky Green]

[Redundant/inappropriate lists elided].

The page at Amazon. COM claims that the book in question will ship in
December of this year. I seem to recall having read announcements in
years past that the book would ship in the respective years. Methinks
that a mere claim of a future ship date in 2001 may be considered
insufficient proof that the condition of the wager has been met by at
least one of the parties to the wager.

Just my $0.02,
--Lucky, who will order the book once it ships. Which unfortunately has
yet to come to pass.

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 5:18 AM
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> Subject: True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier
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> Status:  U
> Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 23:45:04 -0500
> To: cypherpunks at lne.com
> From: Matthew Gaylor <freematt at coil.com>
> Subject: Order Now:  True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace
>   Frontier
> Sender: owner-cypherpunks at lne.com
> 
> [Note from Matt:  I made a small wager in palladium that Vinge's True
> Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier would be 
> available to order prior to Jan. 1, 2002 with a well known 
> Cypherpunk.  And I
> won.   Acct# 101893.]
> 
> 
> At 3:03 AM -0700 8/13/01, Well known Cypherpunk wrote:
> >Subject: Re: BTW-  I'll bet you...
> >
> >OK - Done deal, if you'll accept the modification that it be 
> orderable 
> >and shippable by Amazon or other on-line bookstore within a 
> week after 
> >that.
> 
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<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312862075/ref=pd_bxgy_text_1/
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True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier
by Vernor Vinge, James Frenkel (Editor)

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Paperback - 384 pages (December 2001)
Tor Books; ISBN: 0312862075

Amazon.com Sales Rank: 28,271


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