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Folks,

I would like to apologize, both to the subscribers of this list
and to Michael Hart personally, for the tone of my earlier
posting about the Gutenberg Newsletter.  Whatever merit my
position may have had, it was not appropriate of me to vent my
feelings of exasperation on this discussion list.  As one
subscriber has pointed out, if a NETTRAIN subscriber had posted a
message like this, I would have returned it and asked the sender
to rephrase it more temperately, if not to reconsider the posting
altogether.  My only excuse is that I wanted to respond quickly
so as to forestall a flood of private e-mail.

I should probably explain more clearly why I asked for a public
discussion.  I have received comments--privately--from NETTRAIN
subscribers who felt that Gutenberg postings did not belong on
NETTRAIN because they bore little, if any, connection to the
topic of the list.  Michael Hart, on the other hand, indicates
that the comments--again, private comments--he hears from
NETTRAIN subscribers are overwhelmingly favorable.

In my role as listowner/moderator, I am guided by your wishes as
to what you want to get out of this list.  Some listowners use a
heavy hand in squelching "inappropriate" discussions, and
subscribers are apparently free either to adhere to the
listowner's guidelines, or to unsubsribe.  On this list, however,
in keeping with the cooperative spirit of the Internet, I wish
the scope of discussion to be determined with the participation
of the subscribers.

That is why I asked for a public discussion to clarify this
issue: specifically, whether the majority of subscribers find
Project Gutenberg Newsletter postings and updates sufficiently
valuable for Internet training purposes that these postings
should be made available on this list.  If it were totally up to
me, I would have no problem with Michael Hart's Gutenberg
postings appearing on NETTRAIN--but as I view my role as
moderator, it is not totally up to me.  My decision to "take the
discussion public" was intended in this spirit; I want to be
guided by what the NETTRAIN subscribers want.

Once again, my apologies.

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