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I just sent a copy of my posting to her at the address she was using 
on the Forum: camy <[log in to unmask]>  I'm sure she'd appreciate 
other messages of encouragment.

[Kevin...I hope it's OK to send her email address, since it's 
available to anyone who's saved their old emails.]

Ben


>Do you have Camy's e-mail address, by any chance?  Now that you 
>mention it, I have noticed her absence.  It seems to me that the 
>Forum should be open to all comers, at all levels of Twain 
>skowlarship and, after all, every one of us had a starting point. 
>Besides, as one of my favorite mentors asserts, "We're all bozos on 
>this bus," myself (especially) included.
>MZ,KC,MO
>-------------- Original message from Ron Owens 
><[log in to unmask]>: --------------
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>>  I so would like Hal Bush's posting be the last word on this whole
>>  thing, but I feel the need to reveal one more incident in this whole
>>  talk of leaving the Forum. Do you all remember "Camy?" She is the
>>  blind woman whose passionate interest in Twain, and her questions,
>>  spurred some great discussion from many of you. She has a degree in
>>  literature, but she posed many questions because she cannot use search
>>  tools as easily as most of us, and she is hugely captivated by Mark
>>  Twain. Well, Camy left the forum because of negativity shown to her,
>>  particularly by one person on the list who privately said she shouldn't
>>  be asking so many questions since this is for collegiate folk. (Most of
>>  you would agree this individual is not even in that category.) When
>>  considering Hal's 4 cautions, might you all also consider the point of
>>  this forum. Besides being a practical tool for researchers etc., can
>>  it not also be to further stimulate interest in Twain by answering
>>  questions from folk like Camy, the same way you all eagerly do
>>  following one of your public lectures, and thereby not give the
>>  impression of an Ivory, Ivy Tower Forum? And why shouldn't ordinary,
>>  decent civility be an ongoing part of any discourse on the internet as
>>  in public? And that should include patiently dealing with questions
>>  you've heard before, and not treating such people as interlopers in a
>>  private club. Let's follow Hal's advice. The best invention in the
>>  world is the delete button. But stay nice.
>>  -- Ron, in Elmira


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