>another famous author Crichton Miller

Never heard of him. Same goes for most of the others. "Famous" seems to be alternewspeak for "will do absolutely anything to get his 15 minutes".

Incidentally, the only reason I've heard of Gardiner is because he SPAMmed me about this conference last month. The email address he spammed is one I use exclusively on this message board -- anyone else get his SPAM?

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Stephen