Rare Butterfly from China mainland

[Doug Yanega]

>What is the proper procedure for dealing with the repeat posting of the
>Chinese butterfly. If it is illegal for commercial trade in this species is
>the list server legally bound to at least eliminate the person from the
>server, and secondly, report the advertisment to the proper authority
>dealing with such matters? I would be interested to know, if someome could
>please comment.

Actually, if Mr. Lu has already been warned, there are two lines of
approach here, both SHOULD be taken, but I only know how to deal with one
of them. To wit: (1) there should presumably be some official interest by
SOME agency of SOME government in this case - since the web site is hosted
by a US company (bigfoot.com) and the ad appeared on a listserver out of
the US, certainly someone here on the list must know who at USFWS (seems
most appropriate) should be contacted about this (2) it is a trivial matter
to contact the administrators at bigfoot.com, who have a very good track
record of removing unethical clients when legitimate complaints are
registered. I've contacted these folks before, and will gladly do so again,
but I hesitate to have Mr. Lu's website disconnected until AFTER the folks
at USFWS (or wherever) have seen it and documented it - it contains the
strongest evidence against him. Therefore, I would appreciate it if someone
could let me know if and when there is some action taken, at which point
I'll talk to bigfoot.

Sincerely,

Doug Yanega    Depto. de Biologia Geral, Instituto de Ciencias Biologicas,
Univ. Fed. de Minas Gerais, Cx.P. 486, 30.161-970 Belo Horizonte, MG   BRAZIL
phone: 031-449-2579, fax: 031-441-5481  (from U.S., prefix 011-55)
                  http://www.icb.ufmg.br/~dyanega/
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