Dear all and specially Harry,

Many excuses if there was a misunderstanding and if my reply, Harry, was not
in your level of humor (that I did understand and appreciated). Your message
was more than a humoresque message but also a sign to me reminding all the
time you spent here in Brazil, sending me a message in my mother language,
Portuguese. I'm still a man of humor and if there is someone ignorant here
in Conch-L that one is me. My lack of knowledge is incredible and Conch-L is
a great way to learn more and more.

On the other hand, this reply comes from my work office and most of times I
have more than 100 messages of Conch-L in an e-mail subdirectory to be read.
When I reply, most times I don't have more than few minutes to do it, since
I'm at work, and not necessarily it will come with the best of my humor.
Unfortunately words not necessarily express in the best way what the guy in
the other side wants to say, specially if English is not his mother
language.

Harry, accept my excuses if my message hit you someway but I didn't have any
intention to do it. Just to send a fast reply.

To all Conch-Lers who want more information about the Bathynerita, I have
Clarke's article and I can send you a copy. Please send me a private e-mail.

I'll use this message also to thank you Art for your reply regarding Oliva
lignaria. I usually send my "thank you" messages privately to do not
overflow our list, but this one I postponed, postponed, postponed ...

You can bet that I will bring Conch-L much more questions and doubts (don't
forget that Art is the Question Man and I'm the Doubt Man) than answers, but
if there is a small chance that I can help someone with something, I'll do
my best. You can count on me, even if my messages are not necessarily full
of humor. ;-))

All the best,

Eduardo Moreira
Brasilia, Brazil



-----Mensagem original-----
De: Harry G. Lee [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Enviada em: Domingo, 5 de Setembro de 1999 20:38
Para: [log in to unmask]
Assunto: Re: [CONCH-L] Deep water Neritidae


Dear all,

When I emailed the list-serve, especially Eduardo Moreiro, last week about
the deepwater nerite:

"Dear Eduardo,

Que e isto?????"

I honestly thought E. M., a renowned man of humor, was treating us all to
one of those Audubon-on-Rafinesque ruses (see Andy Rindsberg's report of
the fictitious trivalve).  If I were more circumspect, I could have
concealed my ignorance of this deepwater "orphan" Neritoidean.  All that
was necessary was to go to my own club's homepage (vide infra) and link to
Gary Rosenberg's Malacolog 2.0 (shortcut version:
<gopher://erato.acnatsci.org/>), wherein there is as complete an inventory
of W. Atlantic marine mollusks as possible (and more extensive than
imaginable).  After a few keystrokes I was able to retrieve:
...

A Conch-L thread could have been focussed in a fraction of the time it took
our electronic symposium to make its revelations.  Thanks to José Leal and
Eduardo Moreira for giving direction, and shame on the modest Gary
Rosenberg for not sufficiently touting his most utilitarian resource!

Harry