She contacted me, also. I had approximately 12 days to turn in the first chapter, which would have been fine if I didn't have a job! I am positive that she got my name from Perlmonks because she addressed me as "Ovid" (heh!) and I haven't been posting to Usenet, nor have I been hanging out on IRC.

Needless to say, I declined. However, I sent a follow-up e-mail mentioning that not only does Wrox Press not have a Perl/CGI book (that I could find), the market in general (in my opinion) needs a such a book that is not only named at beginners, but offers correct security advice, demonstrates good programming techniques, yada, yada, yada.

Not only did Ms. Gilbert not bother to respond to my e-mail, she sent me a follow-up e-mail informing me that the deadlines for the chapters she needed had been pushed back to the end of November. So, in my mind, she spams me, ignores me, and then spams me again.

Incidentally, if anyone is interested, the online version of my Web programming course has been updated slightly. I have corrected a number of minor issues and have clarified some subject matter that I explained poorly. Further, there is now an Appendix 2 (but still no Appendix 1), that is a list of URI escaped characters and also HTML character codes. It also has an interesting little program at the bottom of the page :)

I still don't have the third chapter written yet, but I hope to get to it in a week or two. The Wrox press spam got me to thinking that if I receive enough of a positive response, perhaps I should write a book. Hmm...

Cheers,
Ovid

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