Yes, Ryan said "we are not making a public announcement about it" in his email
about requesting an NDA.
Kevin
Tim Dugger wrote:
> On 3 Jul 00, Adam scribbled a note about Re: [Open_Gaming] NDA/SRD/Etc info :
>
> > Ryan has stopped posting on rec.games.frp.dnd because a number of people
> > there harbour suspisions of him.
> >
> > Regardless I do not believe it was inappropriate for them to know.
>
> But it was inappropiate for an individual to take it upon themselves
> to pass out information that could reasonably create a stampede of
> email of folks whose sole purpose is to attempt to get an early
> copy of the book.
>
> I don't know who posted it to the newsgroup, but doing so,
> especially without Ryan's permission was totally the wrong thing to
> do. If he had wanted to post the information there, he could have
> very easily rejoined (if he ever actually unsubscribed) to post that
> information himself.
>
> Personally, I think that if a person would take this step, I would not
> trust them to honor the NDA. If a person on one of the newsgroups
> were seriously interested in producing products for the d20 system,
> they would have joined this mailing list to begin with.
>
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