I'm not sure what I'm about to plead for really falls under the traditional
definitions of "scholarship", but it's the word that comes to mind.
 
I edit, for fun, the EP area in the Open Directory (based at
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Authors/Poets/P/Pound,_Ezra/ but also
appearing at Lycos, AOL, Hotbot, and other euphoniously-named and
lavishly-funded Internet loci)... anyhow; I just now took a pass through
the listings there, which I'd collated sometime in the first half of 1999,
and about a quarter of them just aren't there any more.
 
This, to use a term neither technical nor literary, sucks.  People who
publish things on the Internet without feeling some measure of commitment
to leaving it there once published are suffering from a failure of what
I can only call basic scholarship.
 
In the more technology- and lucre-oriented segments of the Net, people are
just more careful about maintaining the posts they stick in the electronic
earth.  Why should humanists be second-rate in this?
 
Hrrumph. Back to your regularly scheduled meta-ideologies and
metametapoetics.  -T.