In a message dated 4/15/2005 1:10:47 AM Mountain Standard Time, Bowerbird@aol.com writes: no, of course you don't. Yes. It means you almost certainly have Asperger's Disorder. Get in touch with a psychiatrist specializing in forms of autism and arrange to be evaluated for it. Unfortunately there's no cure for it, which is why I seem to wind up in so many flame wars that I never MEANT to get into, but once you know you have it you can occasionally remember to ask yourself, "Do I really want to say this, or does Asperger's want to say this?" Of course you MIGHT have paranoia with or without schizophrenia, or schizophrenia with or without paranoia, or you MIGHT have bipolar depression, but it's really hard to believe that you could succeed in being this obnoxious without SOME kind of mental illness. It definitely looks to me like autism or a related personality disorder, though. By the way, I OWN an e-publishing house. I distribute on FictionWise.com and on eBookWise.com, and I DON'T republish anything from Gutenberg. I feel very strongly that selling something that is easily available free is counterproductive and somewhat dishonest. I did post one thing on Gutenberg several years ago, with a note that it was copyright and could be used only for nonprofit purposes. That one I have now posted for sale, but I already owned the copyright. Ebooks are like videos: you can buy them, or rent them, or check them out from a library for free. You're seeing a war where there isn't one. Television didn't kill radio. Videos and, now, DVDs didn't kill television. E-book stores aren't going to kill Gutenberg. Your thinking is much too narrow; that's another reason I'm suspecting autism of some sort. That is all I have to say on this topic. I just came on to check emails. I have pneumonia and I am going back to bed now. Now go away until after you've seen a good psychiatrist. As it might take several months for you to get in, and then another six months before the psychiatrist is able to figure out what combination of meds will help you the most (I changed meds every two weeks for eight months), everybody else can have a nice long rest. Anne Do you like to breathe? Then save the trees! Begin a personal relationship with an ebook TODAY!