The Museophile discussion forums website is available under http://forums.museophile.net/ . As well as local forums, over sixty external news feeds are accessible via the website to registered users, ranging from museum-related mailing lists, newsgroups and general news sources customised to search for articles relevant to museum professionals and other "museophiles" with cultural interests. If you are reading this on a museum or cultural mailing list and the list is archived on-line, then you can also access this list and its archives (along with many others) via the Museophile discussion forums website. To use the website, please visit http://forums.museophile.net/ . If you would like to see a sample of external newsfeeds without registering, please log on using username "guest" with password "guest" (all lower case). Please do not change the password so others can use this facility too. You are welcome to register with your own username of course if you find the facility useful so you can select your own news feeds on a customised homepage whenever you visit the website. You are also welcome to post messages to the local forums, which is possible even without registration. If anyone would like a new forum adding to the site for their own museum-related use, please feel free to contact me on [log in to unmask] . The website gained an honourable mention in the recent MW2003 Museums and the Web conference Best of the Web competition Best Museum Professional's Site section, held in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, 20-22 March 2003. The site was developed as part of a BASS/HEROBAC Business Award & Support Scheme project at London South Bank University, UK. See http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/best/win_professional.html Prof. Jonathan Bowen in FEST/CISM at London South Bank University provided most of the content and Mike Houghton, a Research Fellow on the project, installed and developed the underlying web technology. A paper on museum discussion forums in general and the Museophile discussion forums in particular entitled "Online Museum Discussion Forums: What do we have? What do we need?" was presented at the MW2003 conference. See http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/papers/bowen/bowen.html Feedback on the website is welcome. Results from a survey on museum-related discussion forums conducted through this website will be available in due course. Happy web surfing! -- Prof. Jonathan Bowen, Professor of Computing London South Bank University, CISM, Borough Road, London SE1 0AA, UK Email: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.sbu.ac.uk/~bowenjp/ Museophile Limited: http://www.museophile.com/ Personal URL: http://www.jpbowen.com/ ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).