Bowerbird, imagine one minute you are the Robinson Crusoe of a new mailing list 100% dedicated to your passion: ebooks in structured plain text format(s). How would you make people join the mailing list? How would you "moderate" it? What kind of encouragement would you send to people? What kind of effective project would you make people work on? What kind of tone would you use in your emails so that people feel like they want to follow you? Again, you are Robinson and you are alone. Robinson had the Bible with him -- you "only" have the Gutenberg project. What do you do? How long do you feel sorry for the stupid human nature? What problem do you tackle first, so that people join you in tackling it? Remember: I'm not on this island. No one is. You have to start from scratch, considering how useless was the effort spent for so many years... -- Bastien