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