I'm not an elder but I do have a photocopy of the book from the net. A number of elders in the congregation say that I should hand it over to them as "I should not have it." The chief reason they give for their request is that the information therein (such as the chapters on judicial cases) is not for my consumption and would not be of any use to me as I'm not an elder in the same way a book on surgical technique would be of little use to me if I wasn't a practicing surgeon.
The claim is made that those who post confidential "To the Body of Elders" letters on the net are being dishonest - therefore they are not Christians. Nothing I said to them on this matter convinced them otherwise.