Hello, Here at Bookshare, we do take privacy issues very seriously. If you find specific problems with a book which you can't resolve, the best thing to do is reject it with specific comments as to the problems, so that we can try to resolve them. Thanks from all of us for the great work that all of you do! Sincerely John Glass Customer Support Manager, Bookshare Benetech 480 S. California Ave., Suite 201 Palo Alto, CA 94306-1609 USA (650) 475-5440 x103 (650) 475-1066 fax john.g@xxxxxxxxxxxx www.benetech.org The Benetech Initiative - Technology Serving Humanity A Nonprofit Organization -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Katie Star Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 10:31 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitter's names HI Robert, Considering all aspects of Bookshare and the volunteer group it only makes sense to have a way to contact the person. I am just curious why and how these privacy reasons came into being and what they are based on. Katie Hill Expand your wealth at: www.838gold.com "Come to the edge" "We can't; we will fall" "Come to the edge" "We can't; We're afraid" "Come to the edge" And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew. - Anonomous ________________________________ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of robert tweedy Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 7:07 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitter's names Katie, I was just thinking why bookshare didn't give out addresses. i THINk if we are going to do our jobs successfully, there should be a way to contact the submitter. Thanks to Cindy and others who can go and get copies of books we would have a harder time. F For skype contact bobwichitaks For msn contact info rt5117@xxxxxxx no emails. ----- Original Message ----- From: Katie Star <mailto:kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 10:12 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitter's names HI Robert and all, I would have to say I am not sure where it is a privacy issue. With any newsgroup, support list like this, even when I worked for AOL in the file libraries the uploaders email address was part of the file when submitted and after it was released. IN the above cases there is not a privacy issue that I have ever heard brought up. I would think if there was in the mail lists and message boards I have been on over the last 15 years it would have been stated in the terms of service or guidelines of participation. So now we are in a situation where we are building a library where the volunteers are compansated and the service is a for pay access and those contributing have to have their privacy protected? I am bringing it up in the spirit of discussion and there are no hard feelings but the question might be... Is there some privacy law or regulation that the submitter's email address is not automatically displayed or is this a decision that has been made because it was felt privacy of submitters should be protected? Katie Hill Expand your wealth at: www.838gold.com "Come to the edge" "We can't; we will fall" "Come to the edge" "We can't; We're afraid" "Come to the edge" And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew. - Anonomous ________________________________ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of robert tweedy Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 7:02 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitter's names For one I don't mind if people have my address on this list. I don't look at it as a privacy issue, after all we are here to help each other and I am putting in my thoughts to some of the post on other issues. I think the books should be better than fair. I scan a book and if there are words that don't sound right, I fix them if I know what they are or rescan the page. I look at it as what people are getting for their money and if I don't like the page is, others won't like all the mistakes as well. For skype contact bobwichitaks For msn contact info rt5117@xxxxxxx no emails. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jill O'Connell <mailto:jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 2:01 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] submitter's names Jake, I have given a great deal of thought to your concern about requiring submitter's names and I respectfully disagree. Perhaps you have had to deal with over-intrusive validators but I never have; in fact, just the opposite. One of my earlier submissions was being validated by Kenneth Cross and he wrote to let me know that there were two missing pages in the book. I was extremely grateful that he was able to do that as the book would otherwise have been rejected. And it's also very pleasant to have a validator take the time to congratulate you on a good submission. Bookshare, in my opinion, doesn't need quantity anymore; it needs quality and if the submitter can't get feedback from the validator, how is he going to improve? I can understand that there are submitters whose lives are too busy to allow them to be on this list. Bookshare does invite new volunteers to join this list but I think they should take this a step further and let new volunteers know how important it is for them to provide contact information for the validator. As someone else has pointed out, I do give thought as to whose submissions I validate, and am always a little uncomfortable when it is the notorious "Bookshare volunteer." You have been so helpful to me that I don't like disagreeing with you, but I think this matter is too important to ignore. I would be interested in knowing how others on the list feel about what degree of importance it should have on changes Bookshare needs to make in order to improve their collection. Jill