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Grex Internet Item 67: Celebrities on the internet!
Entered by take6 on Wed Aug 17 02:50:36 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.

13 responses total.

#1 of 13 by scg on Wed Aug 17 03:06:09 1994:

Bill Clinton    president@whitehouse.gov
Al Gore         vice-president@whitehouse.gov

#2 of 13 by marcvh on Wed Aug 17 16:41:10 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.

#3 of 13 by rcurl on Wed Aug 17 17:04:01 1994:

For myself, since those "celebrities" have no interest in writing to me,
I have no interest in writing to them. I like mutual communication.

#4 of 13 by robh on Wed Aug 17 17:55:19 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!

#5 of 13 by take6 on Wed Aug 17 23:54:08 1994:

Who's dughof@cogsci.indiana.edu?

#6 of 13 by robh on Thu Aug 18 02:20:57 1994:

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

#7 of 13 by twist on Thu Aug 18 05:39:51 1994:

Douglas Adams-adamsd@cerf.net
Bill Gates(microsoft guy)-billg@microsoft.com

#8 of 13 by raven on Sat Aug 20 01:53:12 1994:

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

#9 of 13 by bartlett on Sat Jan 7 17:50:17 1995:

Genie addresses are of the form cwb$@genie.geis.com

#10 of 13 by cicero on Sun Mar 5 08:31:34 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).

#11 of 13 by peacefrg on Thu Mar 23 18:40:41 1995:

Trent Reznor is a frequent visitor to alt.music.nin. And has 
an e-mail address form prodigy

#12 of 13 by nephi on Sat Mar 25 10:00:29 1995:

What is his login id?

#13 of 13 by peacefrg on Mon Mar 27 19:15:03 1995:

treznor

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