I believe I have finally fixed the bug that made my subscription peculiar,
but it temporarily caused my subscription to crash.  If anyone has specific
questions for me, specimens for DNA analysis, etc. and has not gotten
through, try emailing to [log in to unmask] rather than any other
address.

This fix probably enables me to directly reply to messages from CONCH-L,
putting me at risk of accidentally sending a private note to everyone just
as frequently happens to other folks.  What do you think of making the
default reply address [log in to unmask] as a preventative
measure?  Anyone carelessly hitting the return button would receive an
error message, but a quick deleting of .deletethis will continue the
sparkling flow of conversation if you really want to mail to the list.

The .deletethis approach has worked for another list I am on.
Incidentally, I sent this suggestion to CONCH-L a while ago.  Voting in
response was one for and none against, so nothing further happened then,
but the problem has persisted.

To provide shell-related and not just CONCH-L-related content, Hurricane
Floyd seems to have provided some benefit as well as trouble by promoting
slumping of the cliff at the Mitchell Farm locality (Tar Heel, NC),
providing a diverse mid-Pliocene shell fauna within reach.  Saturday's trip
yielded lots of sinistral cones and whelks, Siphocypraea, Ecphora, etc. and
a 3-4 inch megalodon tooth plus good barbecue just down the road.
Landowner permission is required to collect there.


Dr. David Campbell

"Old Seashells"

Department of Geological Sciences
CB 3315 Mitchell Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill NC 27599-3315
USA

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919-962-0685
FAX 919-966-4519

"He had discovered an unknown bivalve, forming a new genus"-E. A. Poe, The
Gold Bug