Re: Looking for Authors

In article <Xns92B4CD4D9B62Cmeprivacynet_at_194.97.5.8>, Frank Breuer <me_at_privacy.net> writes:

>"Doctor Java "wrote:
>
>> Our team is looking for co-authors for an upcoming book series. If
>> you have the following attributes, please do not hesitate to
>> contact us.
>
>You ran a similar request in June:
>
>http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=28cfa0a3.0206130219.36189cea%40pos
>ting.google.com
>
>Were are the books from that run? Why do you have to hide as a
>publisher? Or in short, this looks like a scam.

Frank,

jm04469_at_yahoo.com previously identified himself as one James McGovern.

See
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=jm04469%40yahoo.com&start=10&hl=en&lr=&i e=UTF-8&selm=20020724104235.49483.qmail%40web20804.mail.yahoo.com&rnum=17

As well as multiple posts to attempt to recruit authors he also has sought, on at least one occasion, to recruit young ladies. See http://groups.google.com/groups?q=jm04469%40yahoo.com&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&s elm=anaf2i%242oq%241%40slb2.atl.mindspring.net&rnum=9

If this "James McGovern" is the same individual as the James McGovern who was a contributing author to Professional Java E-Commerce then he does appear to be an author.

The only other computer book on Amazon.com which acknowledges a James McGovern is XQuery Kick Start slated for publication in early 2003. There is no attribution of any Java books to this name, other than the one I mention.

I hope that helps a little.

Andrew Watt Received on Sun Oct 27 2002 - 21:33:35 CET