Hello all -- Hope you're all enjoying the season, no matter what season that is in your little part of the planet. Just a couple of administrative comments to make. Firstly, I don't know about you but I really appreciate it when surnames are capitalised in posts to the list. If they're in capitals in the subject line, that's great, but even more helpful is to put each surname mentioned in your actual message in capitals as well. Yes. I know, takes a little more work on your part. But think of the benefits. Your object in posting is to get the attention of the hundreds of other people here and particularly to the surnames you're interested in. The easiest way to do that is to capitalise the surnames. Makes them jump out of the message, makes them SHOUT at you, doesn't it? So, please capitalise. One of our list guidelines mentions this specific topic. Secondly, and this concerns another of our guidelines. The purpose of a mailing list is to share on-topic info with each other *on the list*. Sharing info *off the list* defeats the whole purpose of the list. Instead, it turns into a private conversation between two people that the rest of us aren't privy to. Some of that privately-shared info may be of help or interest to other subscribers but, since it happened off list, they don't know about it. As well, none of the info goes into the list archives for the possible benefit of others in the future. Therefore, if it's on-topic for HWE, I would hope and ask that everyone post queries and replies to the list, rather than privately off-list. Our multilingual HWE guidelines are on our website here: http://www.island.net/~andreav/hweguide.htm. The specific guidelines I've mentioned above are numbers 2 and 6. My best to all of you, Andrea (as list concierge)