To those with interests in the cowries: The 'temporary' home of The Captured Cowry is going to be its location for the foreseeable future. I have been unwillingly "upgraded" by the purchaser of the purchaser of my initial Internet Service Provider... which means, I've lost the original address that The Captured Cowry has had for nearly four years,... blah, blah, blah... The primary site http://www.cowrys.org has the Archive of cowry-related articles from a third of a century of the printed Hawaiian Shell News, the nine issues of Griffiths' The Cowry, Lindsey Groves' Index to Cypraeacean & Triviacean Lit. 1971-1993 from The Cowry n.s. and, now, The Captured Cowry. And, for the conch enthusiasists, some (not yet, all) of the Strombus-related articles from the printed Hawaiian Shell News. Happy seeking! makuabob (a.k.a. Bob Dayle) P.S. There are some viruses being e-mailed out today by machines with addresses of at least some CONCH-L members. Be careful. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp