[109761] in Cypherpunks
Re: Stephenson's new book, _Cryptonomicon_
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Sat Apr 3 13:55:09 1999
In-Reply-To: <199904031010.LAA04525@server.eternity.org>
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 10:40:32 -0800
To: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Reply-To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
At 2:10 AM -0800 4/3/99, Adam Back wrote:
>Ryan writes about Neal Stephenson's book, cryptonomicon:
>
>> I wonder if he's aware of Tim May's pioneering "cyphernomicon".
>
>A few days ago Neal posted to cypherpunks this URL with the comment:
>> Some information about the book is available on the Web, but most of
>> the people who read this list probably will find it inadequate. As a
>> way of conserving bandwidth on this list I have posted a FAQ
>> ("Frequently Anticipated Questions") intended specifically for
>> cypherpunks.
>
>http://www.well.com/user/neal/cypherFAQ.html
>
>If you look there one of the FAQs is just this question, and the
>answer is he wasn't when he chose the title, but he is now:
Bruce contacted me last weekend. I replied immediately with my usual point
that names are not "ownable" and so he is free to use the name he has
picked.
He did not know about Lovecraft, so I pointed out to him the origins of
"Necronomicon," which I had also mentioned in an early part of the
"Cyphernomicon."
My main concern--wish, actually--will be having his publishers contact me
about _my_ use of "Cyphernomicon" and hence "causing confusion" with
_their_ "Cryptonomicon."
Meaning no disrespect to Bruce, I am looking forward to telling the legal
vermin to fuck off. Don't tip them off, as I am hoping for something like
this.
An injunction against me would be delicious.
--Tim May
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