Celebrities on the internet!

Aug 17 02:50 UTC 1994

OK, here's an item I hope we can have some fun with. I hope people start
adding to this so we can have a nice fat list of celebrities to tell all
our friends who don't have internet access that we talk to so-and-so
regularly. I'll start the ball rolling with the only two I know...

Amy Grant <amy.grant@nashville.com>
Mike Thacher (of the group Rockapella) <mthacher@aol.com>

Amy doesn't always check her e-mail herself; sometimes her fan club
president checks it -- her name is Lori McAlister. But I'm told the
mail DOES get to her. Mike checks his mail frequently and is a regular
contributor to the rec.music.a-cappella newsgroup.

response 2 of 13:

Aug 17 16:41 UTC 1994

Adam Curry (formerly of MTV)   adam@metaverse.com
Dave Barry is on the net, but prefers not to have his email passed
around too freely.

Of course, we don't talk to these people regularly.  I would assume
most anyone of note who has an email account gets too many letters
from dweebs who think it's "cool to be able to tell my friends I sent
a letter to so-and-so" (or a talk request, or whatever) that someone
else handles the mail.  I mean, dughof@cogsci.indiana.edu doesn't read
his own mail, and doesn't even really know how all that well.  I mean,
nobody gets all excited about which celebrities have phone numbers, and
most of them don't like having theirs passed around.

response 4 of 13:

Aug 17 17:55 UTC 1994

J. Michael Stracynski, creator and executive producer (and often
writer) of _Babylon_5_.  stracynski@genie.com  (or whatever Genie's
domain is.)

Suzanne Vega has an account on AOL, but I don't remember her handle.
She was contributing to the Undertow mailing list for a while, that
was quite a trip!

response 6 of 13:

Aug 18 02:20 UTC 1994

Douglas Hofstadter, author of _Godel_Escher_Bach_ and
_Metamagical_Themas_.  Great stuff.

response 8 of 13:

Aug 20 01:53 UTC 1994

        Bruce Sterling, author of "Islands in the Net," and "The Hacker
Crackdown," sterling@well.com

response 10 of 13:

Mar 5 08:31 UTC 1995

Dwayne McDuffie a major comic book writer and Editor-in-Chief of Milestone
Commics is d.mcduffie1@genie.geis.com.  Matt Wayne writer of Milestone's 
"Shadow Cabinet" series as well as an Associate Editor is 
m.wayne2@genie.geis.com.

Kurt Busiek and Ivan Velez 2 more comic book writers that I'm familiar
with also have Genie addresses. 

Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Go's used to have an AOL address, but it got
publicized, and overloaded so she dropped it.  (She still has one there,
but now it is secret).  

response 12 of 13:

Mar 25 10:00 UTC 1995

What is his login id?