OMG, thank you for this! I've been telling people that story off and on for a decade now, and tend to get blank looks and "I've never heard of that, it never happened" responses. It is so good to get confirmation that I didn't somehow just imagine it! (Also good to get my own facts cleared up, about the FTP archive part of it.)

I didn't remember her daring people to tell Spelling & Co, but sheesh.

(As an aside, that disk had the first ever contact I had with my partner of 16 years: her giving me permission to archive her stories on the ftp site.)

I have been grinning about this for days. That's awesome.