Devil's Tooth Cheesecake error

Recently, a friend gave me a copy of John Lyver's updated version of "Dutch
Oven Cooking", in which a recipe was wrongly attributed to me. Because the
recipe in question is from a copyrighted and was posted by me to this list in
a book review last spring, the error is understandable... somewhere in the
ether, my original disclaimers got stripped away.

To avoid any action by the real author, I urge anyone who has a copy of this
great collection to change the attribution of authorship of the "Devil's Food
Cheesecake" from me to: "Sheila Mills, copyrighted in 'Rocky Mountain Kettle
Cuisine-2'", and for goodness sake make this great cake. And buy her book,
too! I've made a great salad from it (we're having it at Thanksgiving
dinner), and simply delicious breakfasts and suppers, as well, especially
"Melissa's Chicken".

Anyway, I've sent this letter to John and in an abundance of hopeful caution,
send this long post to the list in hopes that you will buy her book and keep
Ms Mills too busy to sue John or me.

BTW: Those of us who are DOS subscribers to AOL are currently blind. AOL has
a glitch which will not allow us to receive Scouts-L in digest form (and it
is simply too expensive to receive it otherwise), so, for example, I'm
sending this knowing you are there but unable to verify when it is actually
used. We can receive individual messages but cannot download files attached
to those messages (and AOL compiles the digest into a file and apparently
cannot stop doing so while they are fixing their bug...Help! I'm compiling
and I can't download! :<<<().

TO: John.Lyver@HQ.NASA.GOV

John: I have recently seen your version of Mike Audleman's "Dutch
Oven Cooking" and with mixed emotions of pride and fear note that
you have included the "Devil's Tooth Cheesecake" recipe and
attributed it to me. The pride is a natural response to seeing
such a wonderful recipe and knowing that people think I developed
it (though some may wonder how I, living in Louisiana, would know
anything about "the cold Idaho mountain air"). The fear is also a
natural response, this to wondering when the true author, Sheila
Mills, sees that I have apparently stolen her recipe.

This is, of course, one of the dangers of the Internet. It allows
us to expand simple mistakes in nanoseconds where in simpler times
it would not have been possible to generate such magnitudes of
error.

I wrote a review of Ms Mill's excellent "Rocky Mountain Kettle
Cuisine - 2" and distributed it via the "Scout-L" list server last
spring. Subsequently, I have seen others refer to it as having
been developed by Ian Ford, in England, among others! Now, I am
being given credit.

Please, I beseech you, change that credit line today. Ms Mills
copyrighted her book and will have every right to demand that you
do so and that I tell you to do so, and may have actionable cause
against us in a copyright infringement lawsuit.

I will see what I can do to develop a recipe that will put me back
into the book, but in the meantime, I would appreciate that you
update this book as quickly as possible, even to the point of
appending a note to the file where it currently resides correcting
this error.

Yours in Scouting,
Craig Bond
Sr DE
Mandeville, Louisiana

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