Heckling is a part of all public speaking, and most of the fun. If hecklers had a fair chance to give their opinions, many of them would have more to say than the speakers, and some may have better ideas. The only way a reader can add his two bits worth to a discourse is by scribbling in the margins of public library books. Anything that can be done will be done, so hecklers will always be with us, and so will graffiti, along with carefully considered letters to editors. Since it is so easy to add and subtract opinions to a magnetic publication, a lot of opinionated readers are going to do it. The main purpose of this venture is to turn audience feedback into an advantage --- for everyone --- by encouraging constructive criticism guided by rules for fair comment within the laws governing copyright and public utterance. By the nature of this medium, this publication is going to be shared by an unknown number of readers. Those who want to give us the benefit of their superior information are asked to follow these rules. On those matters that readers can wait for, please append your comments to the end of the file. If you feel that your information needs to be interjected, then mark the beginning and end of your contribution with lines or stars. Please include your name and the date so that we know whom to credit. If you find mistakes of fact, your immediate correction is eagerly asked for. Critics looking for an argument improve their chances by including their addresses. If you are so offended by some statements that you are compelled to make deletions, please mark your censorship with a notice of the amount of text you deleted, in numbers of lines or bytes, and include your name and date to prove the courage of your convictions. Anyone who wants to retain his copyright on contributions is advised to include notice of their legal claim so that no one will assume that all commentaries and contributions are in the public domain. Expect disputes; democracy is not for weak stomachs and faint hearts. Depending on the number of readers who distribute more copies, and the number of contributions added --- not to mention subtracted --- my original text will be unrecognizable by the time this print passes through a dozen recopies. There is no way to know whether all contributors have marked the changes they make. Neither is there any way to know whether they have their facts correct, unless they cite their sources for reference. Furthermore, these discs are communicated person-to-person through private, first-class mail, making the message into a conversation between acquaintances rather than a publication to strangers; it is permissible to say things in private and personal mail that is regarded as unethical, if not illegal, in public utterance. Therefore, all readers must always remember and bear in mind that the copy they are reading is a BOUILLABAISSE stirred by many cooks, not a FILET MIGNON SAUTEED by a chef. Unless you receive a copy that you can certify as unaltered from the original, do not believe anything that offends your common sense and don't hold the original author or signed contributors responsible for statements and/or context that may have been altered by hecklers who prefer to remain anonymous (*2). My own editors have altered my manuscripts until I could hardly recognize my publications as my own compositions --- usually for the better. If some party suffers personal injury from this special interest group disc, everyone who receives it becomes suspect. This is an utterly novel kind of case for the courts to rule on, not quite so much privileged privacy as a closed computer conference but still a one-on-one private correspondence. I dare say that honest mistakes will be excused with a pointed finger, but deliberate malice producing suffering to an identifiable person, when proven unjustified in these litiginous times, will be liable to legal penalties. We may protect ourselves from slanderous or obscene remarks by scanning each disc immediately before mailing, to check that no one else has run the copy and added comments disgraceful to polite company. I have enough discoveries in my head to keep me writing full time for ten years --- I should live so long. In the likelihood that my insurance is vastly underrated, I am curtailing my research and graphic design in order to put as much of my time as I can into getting my ideas written. Unfortunately, the charter members of this publishing revolution will receive bare bones of text, a dearth shared by everyone who buys Version 1.0 of any program. The economy of electronic publication, however, enables me to update my text whenever I get a break, add animated illustrations in colour, and enliven the text with creative layouts in future editions. Most important of all, as copies eventually find their way back to me with accumulated reader input, new editions can be issued with the latest and most extensive information --- better than anything I can do. This publication can be considered as a book written by its best qualified readers. In order to receive updates and new books, all readers will have to send me their names and addresses, regardless whence they received their copies. Please bear in mind that my resources are exceedingly limited, and expect to wait like a Christian for me to follow up in my spare time. I expect this enterprise to be taken over by more resourceful enthusiasts. The definitive version of this disc book will be written on an APPLE IIc, in ASCII files; the animated illustrations will be rendered with DAZZLE DRAW and FANTAVISION --- if I can't find more practical graphics programs. I invested in the APPLE system because I believed all the press reports that the computer field has more APPLE trees planted than anything else. I am deceived; MS-DOS is the most widely used operating system on this scene. This original version, however, is written on a KAYPRO II operated by CP/M 2.2 in WORDSTAR 3.3. files. It will take me time to convert WORDSTAR files to ASCII, and then convert both to MS-DOS. The few graphics included on this disc are drawn with keyboard characters. Since the ASCII code is standardized only for alphanumeric characters, computers using different keyboard codes will produce surprising characters --- the trouble is not in the disk or your computer. As long as computers remain inconvenient to read in bed or on public transportation, I shall concurrently try to find publishers for paper versions of my disc books. These discs hold the beginning of a 75000 word paper book, heavily illustrated with animated illustrations included on disc, under the title TIME TRAVEL --- The Secret Science of The UFOs. Availing myself