"samsloan" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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On Mar 26, 6:43 pm, Jürgen R. wrote:

There is no point correcting your misconceptions about copyright law,
but one thing is certain: You have no right to most of the books
that you are copying and trying to sell.

Readers here should be made aware that Jürgen R. is an Internet gadfly
who has a long history of attacking me all the time.

It was Jürgen R. who announced that I was dead, a report that was
widely believed at the time. See:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.g...2a877bdcae8075

What had really happened is that I was moving and lost my Internet
connection for about two weeks. By the time I got back online and
discovered the "Sam Sloan dead" thread, there had been one hundred
postings about my supposed "death" and even church prayers had been
extended for me. Even two of my children thought that I was really
dead.

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Why don't you tell them about the report of Peter Leko's death? Or shall I?

Peter Leko is a well known Hungarian chess player. Sam Sloan is ... well you
have gotten
a whiff of Sam Sloan recently, so you have some idea what he is.

Sam Sloan, before he became a publisher, used to pretend that he was,
among other things, a journalist. One day he reported that Peter Leko, who
is a live and well, had died. This became a joke on the chess news groups,
because it describes Sloan's regard for the truth so well.

Not much later Sloan disappeared from his favorite news group
(rec.games.chess.politics)
which I sometimes read for entertainment, apparently because
he hadn't paid his phone bill. So I posted the spoof that he had died.

Of course, nobody believed that it was true; but some people had fun
pretending to believe it. Typical responses we

" I'll only believe it when I hear it confirmed by Peter Leko. "

"If this is a joke this is in the worst possible taste."
"Could any statement about Sam Sloan be in bad taste?"
"I agree. It's just wrong to get people's hopes up like this."

etc. etc.

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