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    03-Jan-93 10:31:30
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Fm: Joanne Dow 71162,3257
To: Syndesis 76004,1763
Dunno about other writers but I have known Jerry for about 10 years now and I have NEVER known him to SELL anything he has received. (And he receives more <junk> than he can feed on to family members to see if they will use it even if it is not of interest to him.) At worst it is round filed. At best it is passed along to other people with the proviso THEY do not sell it and if they use it to tell him about it. Sometimes if the vendor involved allows it he will feed it along to LASFS, the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, for their fund raising auctions. (LASFS is a 501c organization and Jerry gets nothing in return for this other than a possible feel good that he helped the club and its library, which is a part of the LA public library system.) Believe it or not Jerry makes most of his income off his novels and collaberations. The BYTE column is a nice piece of steady extra bread. But it is not his primary income. He makes zero off anything shipped to him in terms of reselling it. You are irresponsible to suggest otherwise. Or was this your practice? {@_@}