Notes from the LEPS-L listowner

Lawrence F. Gall lawrence.gall at yale.edu
Thu Sep 17 11:38:39 EDT 1998


Members of LEPS-L and the SBEL newsgroup,
 
As the nominal listowner of LEPS-L, I tend to stay in the background
in this diverse and interesting electronic forum, and post to the list
only when there seems to be something of broad administrative import
e.g., broken server computers and gateways, and the like.  I've been
listening carefully to the recent thread about the pertinence on
LEPS-L & SBEL of commercial advertising in Lepidoptera.  The thread
seems at least partly to have run its course, and has offered a number
of wide ranging and well articulated opinions and suggestions.
 
I've made modifications to both the .info and .welcome files on
LEPS-L, so that new subscription requests and all list review requests
now provide a longer synopsis of the list and newsgroup, including a
caution/proviso regarding overtly commercial postings.  The web
material at http://www.peabody.yale.edu/other/lepsl has been modified
similarly, and I will start emailing the contents of the .info file to
the list on a monthly basis.
 
I believe these actions help clarify the shared purpose of LEPS-L &
SBEL, and rather than sending these modified documents to the whole
list, I encourage all subscribers with an interest to (1) read the web
material, and/or (2) send a REV LEPS-L or REV LEPS-L SHORT to
listproc at lists.yale.edu to retrieve a copy of the .info file.  For
those who believe further modifications are in order, please contact
me directly off-list/off-newsgroup.  Thanks, and happy lepping!

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