In a message dated 12/8/2002 1:27:57 PM Eastern Standard Time, Mark A Mandel <mam at theworld.com> writes: > An open letter to Steven K.Z. Brust, P.J.F. > The first of these errors to strike my eye, alas, was on > the Acknowledgments page itself, in the URL of my own > _Cracks and Shards_ site. I'm kinda surprised I didn't notice that myself. > Whether by spellchucking, or misreading of handwriting, or > careless assumptions about the nature of URLs, or some > other form of error, the crucial component "mam" -- my > initials, and my login ID -- has been warped into the word > "main", producing a pointer to a nonexistent Web location. This is also exactly the sort of error produced by OCR software. > I am now considering whether to invest the monthly fee that > my ISP would require in order to create such a URL as a > redirection to the correct one. Wouldn't it only require creating a new user account named "main"? Of course, I suppose they may charge full price for that, even though you wouldn't require any diskspace or other resources. > In the following list, each entry begins with a page > number, followed by a paragraph number and usually a line > number within the paragraph. The first paragraph on the > page is numbered 1 even if it is a partial paragraph; If it was up to me, I'd label partial paragraphs as zero. > chapter headings and titles are not counted. So typos aren't allowed in chapter headings? :) > A number preceded by a minus sign is to be counted from the > bottom of the page or the paragraph. The error and > correction are separated by "=>", And one more: 360,-9,1 Ibronka => Roanna --KG