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From: ian@loral.UUCP (Ian Kaplan)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Pournelle Column this month
Message-ID: <785@loral.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 9-Feb-85 17:27:56 EST
Article-I.D.: loral.785
Posted: Sat Feb  9 17:27:56 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 11-Feb-85 04:02:41 EST
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Reply-To: ian@loral.UUCP (Ian Kaplan)
Organization: Loral Instrumentation, San Diego
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Keywords: disgusting, Pournelle
Summary: 


  I too was rather disgusted by Pournelle pushing his own books once again.
  The assumption was that his books are much better than all that other
  trash.  I have not read them so I can not say, but I think it is a bad
  idea for an author to throw stones like this.  It is nearly impossible
  for a author to tell how good her/his book really is.  All one can say is
  that you worked hard on it and made it the best book you could under the
  circumstances.

  I did write Pournelle and the editors of Byte to complain about
  Pournelle's constant self promotion.  He basically said that he did not
  feel that it was unethical and that he would continue to promote his
  books in his column.  It seems clear to me that Bytes vaunted conflict of
  interest policy is not followed that closely when it comes to a popular
  author like Pournelle.

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