I greatly appreciate the spirit of Arianne's remarks, but I should make it clear that I am NOT the Forum's list administrator. That thankless job belongs to my dear friend Kevin Bochynski, who has long been one of the most selfless and generous people whom I've ever known. Without his patient and unremunerated toil, the Mark Twain Forum would have died years ago. At the risk of revealing too many confidences, I will say that keeping the Forum going and dealing with complaints and demands have so worn out Kevin that we are unlikely ever to see him again at a Mark Twain conference. The word "bullying" has appeared frequently in recent Forum postings. If you honestly think that a certain late, unlamented member of the Forum was being "bullied," you have no idea of what the list administrator endures. (Anyone remember the name Taylor Roberts or wonder why he is no longer the list administrator?) As one whose own work on Mark Twain owes many heavy debts to Kevin's help--and as one who knows that many others owe Kevin similar debts--I can attest that his loss to the field of Mark Twain studies would be one thousand times greater than that of those who know more about taking than giving. Kent Rasmussen