As a current undergraduate student very interested in Ezra Pound, I joined this list serve with high hopes for mature, academic discussion of Ezra Pound's works, most especially his poetry, as it is a formidable and challenging (but also invigorating, and, at its best, moving and affecting) collection. At times, I have found this kind of discussion at its best. But more often, I tend to find meaningless squabbles over the relative merits of completely unrelated books (i.e., the Seamus Heaney discussion) and bitter academic infighting. If this is the life of academia, perhaps I should reconsider my choice of careers... Is there any way the list serve could perhaps sped more time on actual, worthwhile discussion and less time on these more trivial matters. Of course, I realize that most of the contributors to this list serve probably have quite similar feelings. To those, my apologies for taking up both valuable time and e-mail space. --Jake