Inkwell: Authors and Artists

    

Welcome, Bruce!

And thank you, Martha.
  

    
Thanks, Martha!

Bruce, great to have you on the team!
  

    
Jon, it's your lucky day getting Bruce on board - he's been a fine asset to
the Tips Team.

And thanks to Martha, too, for all the time and energy you put into 
Inkwell.
  

    

Yep, hope Martha's back by as author again soon, too!

Bruce, what fun to have you collaborating here.
  

    
Glad to be aboard, all. Many thanks.
  

    
Congratulations, Bruce. Looking forward to lots of "What's your
philosophy about blah blah blah?" type questions. ;-)

And thanks to Martha for a job Well done.
  

    
Congrats, Bruce!
  

    
Hi, Bruce! 

(as soon as i think of which questions i want to ask bill ayers, i'll
post, for i seem to have so many. inkwell.vue is great! it's what
cemented my decision to join the well, a week after i got my first
computer. i read here a lot. i learn tons. thanks to all of you for
inkwell)
  

    
Thanks, Jen. What a great testimonial!
  

    
Yeah, <inkwell.vue>'s what got me here, too.  (Well, specifically, I
suppose it was Neil's fault.)
  

    
Hooray!
  

    
Free candy on the end of the bar for both of you, Jen and Christy.

(Gail and Cynthia, too.)

More testimonials, while we're at it? Just step up and type into the
little white box, then click on POST.
  

    
mmmmmmmmmm... free candy's the best!
  

    
I'd say thanks, but I don't want to talk with my mouth full...

OOPS!
  

    
Surprisingly easy to understand you. You must do that a lot, hmmm?
  

    
when are we going to start talking about the jefferson airplane book?
  

    
The Jeff Tamarkin interview starts next Friday.
  

    
okay, i
've read the first 7 chapters and i should be thru most of it by then!
  

    

For the record, a very minor change was made to <inkwell.vue.195.60>.

After I posted the reader's message, she wrote back to say she was a little
uncomfortable seeinng her full name in the topic.  So I asked the management
to remove the correspondent's last name from my pseud and from the post
itself.

We handled it this way because it would have disrupted the flow of the
discussion to re-post an edited message down the line, and because there was
nothing significant changed in the post.
  

    
Thanks, that was thoughtful of you guys.
  

    
So people can post here without revealing their names?

This seems so contrary to longstand WeLL policy as I understand it.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.
  

    

Off-WELL posters participate in inkwell.vue discussions by sending email to
inkwell-hosts@well.com

I don't see the harm in allowing those people to use a first name only; do
you?
  

    
Since I have been on the record for years as approving of anonymous
posts, I have no problems with it. 

 I wonder why, however, it's no good ON the WeLL?
  

    
Special case, and I have no problem with it.   This is our showcase for
outsiders.  If they want to continue to participate, they have to get an
account, and they lose the anonymity.
  

    
When someone sends e-mail to inkwell-hosts, I'm reasonably sure nobody makes
a phone call to ascertain whether they are as they appear to be. So, it's
bound to be more anonymous than on-Well posting.

(I also reckon that those who send mail know a little less than those who
post here from on-Well about our varied and storied customs.)