From: Michel Noddy
To: Anne
Subject: how do u think about it?
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 17:29:29

Hi, Chun
i just got a good idea concerning where should i publish my thought.
as i previously talked it is definitely certain that the mailing-list
"cutting edge-theory" will come to be my home base. but it is quite a
question that the mails posted in the list could be recognized as publicly
published papers. even if the members of the list accept the rule, any
of other researchers belonging to the academy will never accept it.

but i forget there is one more way to publish them for me. i once
subscribed an online journal named "Graph Algorithms and Applications
Magazine" and i know one of the advisory board members. his
name is Chung L. Lee, a professor of Illinois university. he is my true
and only one teacher and i have once met him in Champaign Urbana IL.

i received his last letter dated October 7, 1997. this letter has slept
in my pending paper box until today. below is the letter.

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Dear Dr. Noddy:

I received your postcard and it was certainly good to hear from you.
I was in Tokyo during the month of July for a conference but had an
extremely busy schedule. Hope to be able to visit with you the next
time i am in Japan.

Sincerely,

C. L. Lee
Associate Provost
Professor of Computer Science
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to read again this letter now, obviously i had made a big
misunderstanding of the letter. according to my dictionary "visit with"
means "chat" in U.S. however i understand the sentence like "it was
so busy schedule this time and hope to be able to go some sight-seeing
with you next time"

i already forget whether i really mistranslated it or over cared about
things. but after all, i could not make any response to the letter
because i was in economically ultimate hard situation at the time and
had no money even to go to Narita airport to welcome him. i had been deeply
depressed in mind then.

these years were the retrieval process from such situation. my
economical status is not recovered at all but i mentally escaped out from
the worst crisis. perhaps you can see i already stand firm on the
ground again after drinking much salty water. so i must write a letter
to Lee once more. how do you think about it?

in his letter he called me Dr. of course it is his joke but once he said
to me if i could stay in U.S. and learn in his university at least 2 or 3
years, he is willing to give me the award of Dr. and continued "so you
had to earn money to come America." Perhaps he has already retired
from his university and as far as i know, nowadays in some university
of Taiwan. (his wife, also a professor of Illinois University is still
there.)

the Graph Algorithms and Applications Magazine is a new electronic
journal established about 1997. all communications between the
editors, authors, and reviewers are done by email and they attempt to
realize fast review time within six months. this journal is a little hard
for me to byte but our currently concerning issue will be suitable for
this magazine.