Okay, let's try this again.  24 hours after I sent the original, I
realized that I'd hit "reply" and not "reply all", so only Gary saw
it.  Since I promised to make this information available to the list
at large so people could make their own decision on the matter, if
they're interested at all, and since I don't want to look like I
backed down quietly hoping no one would notice, I'm resending it.

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Okay, details, now that I'm back in my mail reader.

Gary Kleppe wrote:

 > Look, you were tempbanned for actively exhorting people on the list to
 > buy something you'd written.

The original posts (and yes, there are two) are here:

http://ffml.anifics.com/archives/old/ffml.2000-09.txt.gz

As it turns out, we both misremembered the posting.  I had
initially announced a slowdown in the output of Drunkard's Walk
because of the contract; then, in response to a large number of
emails with questions, I posted a followup answering those
questions, which I concluded with:

 > Thanks for your interest, and please buy a copy when it comes out -- I *need*
 > the 39.9 cents that I get for each book sold...

which I still maintain would have been seen by practically everyone
as humor rather than a serious plea for buyers, especially since the
book was nearly three years away from reaching shelves at that point.

 > You obviously don't think that was fair. But it's ridiculous to
 > extrapolate that any mentioning of professional works will get one
 > banned.

Not in my eyes, not based on your history.  We covered this extensively
in email in 2001, Gary.  I still have both sides of the exchange in my
archives.

-- Bob

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Robert M. Schroeck          rms@eclipse.net         http://www.eclipse.net/~rms
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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