Hi ---
 
        I have three "quick" points, in no particular order:
 
        1.)  The searchable archive of museum-l mail will be updated with
        May's correspondences within the hour.  The archive can be reached
        by gopher'ing to ucmp1.berkeley.edu and then choosing the menu
        called Mailing Lists: Micropaleontology, Mollusca and Museum-l and
        then choosing the item called Museum Listserver Archive.  The
        search mechanism is very simple.
 
        2.)  The question about "freedom of information" is of course
        an important one. But lets get past some of the rheoteric and
        try to deal with some issues about why information would NOT be
        free on the Internet.  I am really curious what information
        would be worth your money... what would you personally pay to
        see on the Internet (dont get too imaginative).   I bet that
        your answers will be the similar to the marketing schems that people
        may decide to pursue, if there is commonality.
 
        3.)  Since I am sitting here at the Sante Fe Institute, I was wondering
        if the Internet might not be a very good example of a complex
        system replete with emergent properties and rules and all that
        sort of thing.  Anyone have any ideas along these lines??
 
Cheers,
Robert Guralnick | Museum of Paleontology | University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720 | [log in to unmask] | (510) 642-9696