Dear Maria:  Just received two additional emails from you that I don't
think were meant for me.  Just wanted to let you know in case you needed to
send another one to Sylvia.

The second one follows.

Betty Jean



At 11:43 AM 12/13/99 +0200, you wrote:
>Dear Sylvia,
>what you say is not always 100% true.
>As far as Bollettino Malacologico of the Italian Society of Malacology, for
>example, I know for sure (being the coordinator of the publication work
>since 1998) that the authors are always requested their own proofreading
>before the publication: so the Society cannot  be blamed for typos in the
>text of the articles.
>Also as far as my own magazine is concerned, apart from the different check
>done inside the editorial office and thanks to some external collaborator
>of ours, I try to send the proofs to the authors: but sometimes the problem
>becomes serious when the authors are slow in sending back the material they
>are expected to check...On the other side, this proofreading done by the
>authors is easy when they work via internet, or if they have a fax. But
>still too often they can be reached only via snail mail...
>
>Maria
>
>Maria Antonietta Fontana Angioy
>Evolver srl - La Conchiglia
>Rome, Italy