rickywong said:
>   What do you guys think?

so, did anyone respond to you backchannel
about your project?  or was it total silence?


>   How many people are on this list anyway?

from 300-350, depending on duplicates.

that number has been remarkably consistent
for many years, rising slowly across that time,
but with an extremely small amount of "churn".

as you can see, though, it's extremely passive.

once again, everyone here has failed to meet
my challenge for them to do a collaboration...

nothing new about that in terms of this list.

what _is_ new is that the outside world has
finally risen to the point where it thinks that
_it_ can meet my challenge, as evidenced here:
>   http://www.pressbook.com

this is a new venture from hugh mcguire, who
many here will surely recognize as the founder
of librivox, an audiobook public-domain project.

i have talked with hugh.  i am not convinced that
he can best me, but i'm quite happy to see him try.

so once again, everyone here at project gutenberg
continues on autopilot, while the rest of the world
passes them by.  oh well, it was nice while it lasted.

-bowerbird