You have a good point there. A friend of mine has been reading her submissions from cover to cover, making corrections before even submitting them and I plan to do the same, especially in light of the size of the validation pool. Pam On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 12:20:39 -0500, you wrote: >Mike, >Thanks for the easy validation. I just validated the book in question and, if >Ms. Stein is on this list, I'd like to publically thank her for the >outstanding submission and could only wish that all the books were of this >quality. >I'd just like to ask, whatever happened to the principle of innocent until >proven guilty? That book had the copyright info. It had all the front matter, >including the bit about not copying unless authorized blah blha blah. If >I were the person who spent a bunch of time on this book getting it into such >good shape, I'd be really ticked at somebody coming along and questioning my >integrity. If the book meets all the requirements for >validation, and you don't see any obvious indications that it was an e-text, >such as might appear in the front matter for the book and didn't in this case, >then why question it? >Mary > >