On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 11:17:31AM -0400, Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
why?
because the same parties are involved!
That's a bit of a stretch. I, for one, don't read this blog, and couldn't possibly care less whether the people posting articles on this blog edit the content of comments posted to their articles.
and because branko represents himself over there on the teleread blog as being closely related to distributed proofreaders _and_ a volunteer with project gutenberg.
is it in the best interest of these entities to have someone associated with them be responsible for editing writing from someone against the explicit stated will of that writer? i would think not...
Even if this "branko" person does represent himself as being part of DP and/or Project Gutenberg, unless Project Gutenberg has identified him as an agent of the organization (which maybe they have and I just don't know it), I don't see how it's the business of this list to get involved in this matter.
my guess is that it would send _shivers_ down the spine of michael hart to have project gutenberg being portrayed as big brother rewriting the history books. talk about being "untrustworthy"!
we are on a very slippery slope here, and remember, it always starts with something "innocuous", which people encourage you to "sweep under the rug" as "unimportant".
There's a simple solution: If you don't like what's being done to your comments on the blog, stop commenting on and/or reading the blog.