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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In article <199501091628.KAA00456@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>, you 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
> 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.)

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