Try Netscape - it's email program is quite versitile, and doesn't crash  or dump
messages at the slightest provocation, like Microsoft and similar products seem
to do!

MEanwhile, in the world of molluscs, does anyone know the reason that melanism
and rostratism in Cypraeidae often but not always go together??

-Ross.

Charles Sturm wrote:
>
> Folks,
>   I am almost ready to become a Luddite regarding e-mail technology.  For
> 6 years I used a nice simple DOS based program with no problems, this year
> our server was "upgraded" and we were encouraged to use a new e-mail
> program and twice I managed to dump all of my saved messages.  The first
> time I was lucky and found most of them...this time they are gone.  At
> this point is anyone crying along with me?
>   I was lucky enough to back-up some of them on floppies, but not all of
> them.  Here is my request...if anyone is waiting for information from me
> or information that I was to search the Carnegie's malacology collection
> for, please contact me with said request.  There were some people that
> were trying to set up trades for some fossils...please get in touch with
> me.  If someone is kind enough, would you also send me Helmut Nister's
> e-mail address.  Those of you who expressed an interest in stamps (not
> necessarily shell related) please contact me again so that I can put you
> back on the list.
>   Anyone who expects to hear from me about something, please contact me.
> For those of you who are wondering, this guy is going back to my nice,
> dependable, DOS based PINE e-mail program!
>   Thanks for re-establishing contact and suffering through this diatribe.
>
> Charlie
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> Charlie Sturm, Jr
> Research Associate - Section of Invertebrate Zoology
>                      Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA
> Assistant Professor - Family Medicine
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