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Today I posted the January Gutenberg Newsletter from Michael
Hart, the very prolific director of Project Gutenberg.  Mr. Hart
has objected in numerous personal notes to my because of my
choosing not to post some of his earlier messages.  I have chosen
not to post these messages because their cnnection to the
topic of NETTRAIN was minimal at best--for instance, Mr. Hart
cites the announcement of the availability of Jean Armour Polly's
excellent "Surfing the Internet" (which is also available from
many other sources, as previously announced on NETTRAIN.

Mr. Hart complains that I rejected that particular posting without
reading it carefully.  I admit: when faced with another one of
Mr. Hart's 400-line epistles, my first reaction is to hit the
DELETE key.  I certainly did not feel that it was in the best
interests of NETTRAIN to post these always lengthy messages because
Mr. Hart includes one or two Internet training documents in
his listings.

I have tried to accommodate Mr. Hart, but I have received complaints
from NETTRAIN subscribers about his postings.  However, I must
seriously object to his cavalier volunteering of my mailbox for
letters of support for Mr. Hart (I noticed that he did not ask
NETTRAIN subscribers to send me complaints about his postings).
I feel that this was an abuse of the medium, and ethically
questionable.

The bottom line, however, is that I want to resolve this issue
once and for all.  Therefore, at the risk of starting another
flamefest, I would like to ask that anyone who wishes to express
an opinion on the appropriateness for NETTRAIN of Mr. Hart's
Gutenberg Project postings do NOT e-mail me personally, but rather
post here on NETTRAIN for an open discussion of the matter.
I refuse to deal with a large number of private postings which
would only leave me open to charges of unfairness--I want everybody
to hear that people have to say about this.

The relevant section of Mr. Hart's posting follows:

>Special note to NETTRAIN users of Project Gutenberg:  moderator
>started Jan. 1. . .our first January posting announcing Surfing
>the Internet by Jean Armour Polly was rejected by Jim Milles as
>irrlelvant to NETTRAIN. . .without even reading the first lines
>announcing this highly relevant etext.  This rejected note also
>announced the upcoming the removal of an ASCII etext of NUSIRG,
>the Northwestnet User Services Internet Resources Guide.  Those
>NETTRAINers who have asked permission to repost our newsletters
>will have to insure the get posted on NETTRAIN.
>
>There was no Newsletter or Newsletter2 for the last few months:
>I had lots of work to do and wanted to test the the response to
>the Newsletters of October, 1992, also wanted to test NETTRAIN:
>Project Gutenberg is preparing an entire set of Internet etext:
>manuals for those learning the networks.  If you would like the
>Project Gutenberg Newletters posted to NETTRAIN, please send an
>email note to Jim Milles <MILLESJG@SLUVCA.SLU.EDU>. . . .
>
>In deference to Jim's wishes, however, NETTRAIN members will be
>receiving only the most important two or three notes per month,
>and therefore will not receive postings announcing etexts on an
>immediate basis when they are posted, rather at menth's end.
>
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>
>Email addresses:
>General Questions:  dircompg@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
>
>Personal Notes to:
>BITNET> HART@UIUCVMD  INTERNET> HART@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU
>Also as the Usenet group bit.listserv.gutnberg
>CompuServe:  >INTERNET:hart@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu
>Attmail:  internet!vmd.cso.uiuc.edu!HART

Thank you for your continued participation in NETTRAIN

Jim Milles (listowner/moderator, NETTRAIN)    Fax: (314) 658-3966
Head of Computer Services                   Phone: (314) 658-2759
Saint Louis University Law Library        millesjg@sluvca.slu.edu