First, I wish to thank all of you who've expressed interest in my little book on Twain and religion. For those of you who have trouble accessing the websie or downloading the text, please feel free to write me and ask for me to e-mail the fool thing to you directly. Now that I know I can send long documents without breaking them into parts, there should be problem for me to offer the book to you directely. Secondly, I must thank Taylor for the overgenerous kind words he gave this project, and thank him also for establishing this Forum and its related projects in the first place. I was impressed by the thoughts he shard in his letter, and thought I'd add a footnote: I've heard at conferences poo-pooing of electronic publishing, often for very good resons. Proofreading is often sad (I confess, I have sinned), and more importantly, this kind of publishing is often not juried, merely scholars's off-the-cuff "chat rooms" to each other. I'm not downplaying the wonderful immediacy list- serves provide us, and am grateful for the open variety and give- and-take of our informal conferences. But each of us, as it were, are on the "cutting edge" of the technology that will ultimatly become the most useful source of ideas in the coming years. It is important that our generation create the standards for scholary electronic publishing that will change the value the scholarly community places on internet publication. As Taylor suggested, by placing the BEST of our work in such arenas as our _Forum_, we can change more than what tenure or hiring committees consider valid listings on our vitas. The world of ideas can become more interactive, more eaily revised or augmented, more fluid. There is even an aspect of nobility to this: for example, the handicapped community can more readily have access to and communicate with the databases of information and dialouge. Other virtues, no doubt, you are already weel aware of regarding your own experiences. Here, I'm trying to second Taylor's motion that Twainians place their BEST work at the website, on this Forum, or elsewhere in other such families to help raise the reputations of our community as a whole. And list them proudly on our vitas as publications as viable as those trusty, rusty journals. We'll still treausre those books on the shelf, I'm sure, but should ultimatly also treaure the many dynamics of this new realm. And, we can then all take pride in participating in the expansion of the scholarly landscape. I realize I'm a bit of a Johhnny-come-lately, and I'm probably singing to already converted choir. If so, please forgive my ignorant audacity. I guess I need a Twain quote to make all this directly relevant to the purpose of this Forum. All I can think of is, "It is noble to do good. It is nobler still to teach others to do good, and less trouble." Go ye therefore and do likewise. the unsinkable wes britton