In my response to the "A Better Deal" letter from Ken King to LSTSRV-L I made some statements about EDUCOM which were just not true. Since I think EDUCOM has a pretty positive reputation I really wanted to clarify those and asked Robert Heterick, President of EDUCOM, if I could post his note to the list. While "clarifications" on lists are sometimes not as helpful as they might be and I hate to further divert LSTSRV-L from its purpose, in this case I really feel I should post most of his response so you understand that EDUCOM is not involved in the CREN operations. I'm sorry about the misinformation about EDUCOM in my previous note. Marty Hoag ... Mr. Hoag: Your recent posting to LSTSRRV-L contains a number of misperceptions about the EDUCOM-CREN relationship that probably should be corrected--hence this note. You may, or may not, know that Ken King resigned as President of EDUCOM about 18 months ago. About 12 months ago he accepted the position of Executive Director of CREN. EDUCOM and CREN are two separate corporations. For a number of years EDUCOM provided Bitnet services for CREN under contract. Since CREN hired an executive director the relationship between CREN and EDUCOM has been quite different with EDUCOM providing "courtesy" appointments for CREN staff members for purposes of health benefits and the like. In fact, effective this June 30, CREN will not even have this connection with EDUCOM as they establish their own payroll, benefits package, etc. There will be no contractual relationship between CREN and EDUCOM for provision of Binet services beyond June 30 of this year. The actions of CREN that you comment upon in your note are not actions of EDUCOM. EDUCOM was not consulted regarding CREN activities, has not been consulted for over a year, and given the relationship between EDUCOM and CREN, there is no reason that CREN should have consulted with EDUCOM. EDUCOM does not have a seat on the CREN Board and in no way guides or directs the activities of CREN. Without passing judgement on the actions of CREN regarding this or any other matter during the past year, I would have to observe that they are the actions of CREN--not of EDUCOM. The accusations (that seems the appropriate word) in your note regarding EDUCOM are totally unfounded and the result of a lack of understanding of the relationship between CREN and EDUCOM. ...