Yep, on the copyright issue, that's my understanding as well: there isn't too much to worry about with regard to posting things back and forth to one another, and in fact posting it establishes copyright. Just as you said, Shu. However, owning copyright and enforcing it are two different things. If someone uses your work without your permission, getting compensation or getting them to stop involves negotiations, threats, and possibly lawyers. So it is with all intellectual property.

On the spiritual thread, I have a poet friend who doesn't like to answer questions about her poetry. As far as she's concerned, what she meant or what she was feeling when she wrote it doesn't matter. Once released into the wild the work has a life of its own and all that matters is a reader's relationship with it, not hers.

- Rick