Are they trying to steal our work?

Can you guarantee me that TSR will _never_ sell my material to others? Or at least that they won't sell it without working out an agreement with me?

I'm not authorized to make that guarantee unilaterally. However, I can tell you that the intent we had when we started working with MPGNet was not to derive revenue from that site.

"Fascinating," in the word of Mr. Spock. . . . So he's admitting that (a) they might sell netters' stuff, and (b) their intentions might change at any time. (Not that they *will* or their intentions *will*change*, however leaving the door open means you can always walk through it if you want to.)

No, I'm "admitting" nothing. I'm saying that I'm not authorized to make any decisions about what we sell or don't sell. If I intimate that I DO make those decisions, I'll have to deal with complaints from product managers, etc. My intent is to get as close to saying it without actually saying it as I can. For a straight answer, ask Tim Brown, Willard Martens, or Pres. Lorraine Williams. They're able to make some calls about what gets sold. Further, I find it unlikely in the extreme that a company with as sharp a legal team as ours is going to simply grab someone's stuff and publish it without permission. I don't think that's lawful, and I'm certain the legal people would mention it during some meeting or other. :)

Tell us about the balrog and the hobbits, again, Rob.