Kurt;- What do you mean; "Only for Lynn!". You're staying on for me as well. My interpretation is that the list is a written record of things shell people talk about. They talk about each-other, shells, recent operations, good beaches, what their kid or grand-child did and a lot of "etc." It takes far less than a minute to delete notes I'm not interested in. As the publisher of EPINET, I would personally like to see more postings about the Epitoniidae. But I read and respond to lots of other things that are reasonable and moderately intelligent. I will state for the record that I have learned a lot from this list about things I was FORMERLY uninterested in. I hope that we can all still agree to disagree from time to time, and still retain a modicum of respect for each-other. Art (curator: Dept of Flying Pigs; Cincinnati Museum of un- natural History)