tom said:

I'm new to all this...is there some well-established reason why you seem to hate everyone on this list so much, and yet continue to subscribe to it?

it's simply not true that i "hate everyone on this list so much". to begin with, i know very few of the people here _personally_, and i wouldn't hold an emotion as strong as "hate" for anyone that i didn't know personally. in fact, i rarely "hate" anyone, even if i _do_ know them personally. life is too short for that. i'm certainly not gonna be putting up webpages about anyone. indeed, i have a fond feeling for most of the people here, just as i do for project gutenberg as an abstract entity, because the people here are one with me in the cause of electronic-books, which is why i subscribe to this listserve. i've been active in e-books for 25 years. why wouldn't i be here? i _do_ have some impatience with an inability or unwillingness to consider things in their broader context, a shortcoming that i see here on a not-infrequent basis, so i mount an attack on that. for instance, i still ain't seen one word on this list about the recent amazon purchases, and how they might affect the world of e-books. so i think you people here need a wake-up call. so i give it to you. you shouldn't take my posts personally though. unless you're one of the people putting up webpages about me. :+) as for the posts _today_, i'm just celebrating 4/20 with a little fun, and reminding dave (and you, and everyone else ) that whether or not i choose to post here is up to me... at least until greg bans me again... i'm also writing backchannels today, and posts to another listserve, about the issue of error-correction, so i thought i would post here too. i want to make it clear that i have _tried_ to communicate with y'all, even though there are many people here trying to get me to shut up... i have guts to say it to your face, even if you don't have guts to hear it. so, tom, now, do you want to talk about issues? or about me? and if you _do_ want to talk about me, one measly post ain't much. after all, i've got people putting up webpages about me... :+)

(I mean, I know there are people who are just born that way)

i see... -bowerbird