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Dear colleagues, I hope I speak for other sponge people if I ask you to keep to certain rules when using a mailing list. This is not a fun chat site. This list is meant for scientific discussion and for asking for information. Personal abuse and disputes may be amusing for other readers but are also very unnecessary junk-mail and annoying. May I please propose that the following kinds of mails are sent to people directly and _not_ via the list: - chitchat without reference to sponges - personal, unreflected criticism - seasonal greetings - unnecessary answers to nonsense or already answered mails - extremely large mails, e.g. with attached figures (instead figures can be displayed in the internet, and you only announce the site in the list) A general thing: try to keep it short and easy to read. I personally would also prefer if people could erase the long tails of answered-to mails from their replies, but that's up to you. If you agree, please don't answer to the list, but go along and don't clutter the list. If you disagree, maybe we should have a short-term open discussion. Much appreciated. Cheers, Christine Christine Schönberg Dept. of Zoosystematics & Morphology Fachbereich 7 - Biology, Geo- & Environmental Sciences Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg 26111 OLDENBURG GERMANY ph +49-441-7983373 fax +49-441-7983162 email [log in to unmask] internet http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/zoomorphology/Whoiswho.html