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Dear Zooarchers, the message that Ian Baxter has just sent in which he thanks 'all who replied' highlights what is becoming an increasingly serious problem with Zooarch. In fact we have not seen any of these replies. It is of course up to the individual subscribers to decide whether they want to share their information with the whole list or not and there are certainly cases in which it is more appropriate to reply to the individual rather than the list. However, Jacqui and I feel that information sharing is what Zooarch is about and we would like to encourage everybody to be more generous in spreading their information and ideas. You simply need to choose the 'reply to all' option to send the message to the whole list. We don't want to go back to the system we used to have when all replies were automatically sent to the list as that tended to cause privacy problems, so we need to rely on the good will of individual subscribers. We strongly feel that Zooarch is doing terrificly well - we now have more than 600 members - but I am sure that you will all appreciate that it is necessary to keep an eye on its developments to make sure that we carry on improving. I would like to take the opportunity to remind everybody that attachments should not be sent to the list. With the help of the French site 'Archeozoo' we are trying to solve this problem through the creation of a 'zooarch support' webpage. Watch this space for more information. All the best, Umberto -- Umberto Albarella Department of Archaeology University of Sheffield Northgate House West Street Sheffield S1 4ET United Kingdom Telephone: (+) 44 (0) 114 22 22 943 Fax: (+) 44 (0) 114 27 22 563 http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/albarella.html "No co-operation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists" Albert Einstein for information about TAG 2005 see: http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/tag2005/index.html