I agree with Suzanne Quigley. To splinter museum-l into subtopics will be destructive to the list. Museum-l is successful, in part, because it has reached a critical mass of involvement. There are enought people from different areas within museology that can comment on a running discussion to keep it vital by contributing points of view derived from multiple perspectives. If this list were to be hewn into more highly specialized entities certainly that critical mass, that nourishing stew of opinions and experience will be dissipated. The result will no doubt be more specialized, but, to judge from other highly specialized lists, it might also be vacant and silent. I'd rather put up with the necessity of deleting over four fifths of the contents of museum-l, than fool myself into subscribing to the list drawn and quartered. Just like the poor soul who suffers the fate of being pulled to the four winds, the sum is worth more than the parts. Robert A. Baron Museum Computer Consultant P.O. Box 93, Larchmont N.Y. 10538 [log in to unmask]