Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!topaz!ll-xn!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!sdcsvax!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!nick From: nick@hp-sdd.UUCP (Nick Flor) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Followup on "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" copyright problem Message-ID: <308@hp-sdd.UUCP> Date: Tue, 1-Jul-86 15:15:27 EDT Article-I.D.: hp-sdd.308 Posted: Tue Jul 1 15:15:27 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Jul-86 01:11:03 EDT References: <4652@sun.uucp> Reply-To: nick@hp-sdd.UUCP (Nick Flor) Distribution: net Organization: Hewlett Packard, San Diego Lines: 34 Keywords: silly stuff In article <4652@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.uucp (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: >I have a followup on the recent problem with the inadvertant posting of the >copyrighted story "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" by larry niven. Today I >received a letter from Niven, which follows: > > June 24, 1986 > Larry Niven > Tarzana, CA > >Dear Mr. Von Rospach, > > Many thanks for being alert in my behalf. > What some people will do to get a letter from a famous writer (I believe he wrote the Mote in God's Eye with Jerry Pournelle) is beyond me. Hope you didn't throw that one away. Tattletale. :-) Nick ( Um, normally I wouldn't post such nonsense on the net, but I have been re-educated by certain people on net.comics "hey, it only costs a few pennies to post news" (you know who you are) Nevermind that the cost expands geometrically. Nevermind that the backbone sites paid ~500K 2 years ago for news and that it costs more now. ) "Umuhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuh I'm gonna tell mom on you!!!!" -- Every little kid "Good Soldier" -- The Dark Knight