To those interested in the on-line Hawaiian Shell News "archive"... I was glad to hear of the availability of all those years of HSN information and went to check it out when I found some time. As a service to those wanting to use this 'new' resource, and with some disappointment, I must warn you that there is considerably less information available than the "44 years" mentioned at the web site. Also, there has been no apparent effort to 'clean up' the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) generated text on which the Search Engine relies for results. With an obvious interest in the Cypraea, I soon found that 11 pages have errors where "Cypraea" comes up as "Cwraea". I am not inclined to map out all of the possible misspellings of all of the generic and specific names. Also, there is a large lacuna from July, 1988 through December, 1991. No issues are retrieveable. Some other years are missing months and there may be other years like 1988 which shows all 12 months available but actually have fewer. Hopefully, these problems are some technical glitch and not inherent to the CD-ROMs which hold the HSN issues. If printed copies of the missing issues are needed, I will be more than happy to lend them out. Aloha, Bob Dayle, webmaster, www.cowrys.org http://www.cowrys.org/archive/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [log in to unmask] - a forum for informal discussions on molluscs To leave this list, click on the following web link: http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=conch-l&A=1 Type your email address and name in the appropriate box and click leave the list. ----------------------------------------------------------------------