Henry, I have just been "filtering" Chemweb (the list) for Chemweb the club. I am sorry you got no replies to your message ("net taming") about the transient nature of your list messages. Perhaps my "filter" will preserve just a little of your list content (assuming that The Alchemist is archived!) I am interested to know what the "legal" problems were that you faced when you considered recording two years' worth of the list. It *is* archived on the Web archive after all. Mind you, I myself don't use people's names (you are an exception!) when I do the filters. There has been a long discussion of your "posterity" issue (or, more exactly, archiving electronic journals) on chminf-l. Did you see the messages in October? It is also an issue that ICSTI is currently deliberating. Moreover, I have been invited to an ICSU Press Workshop (by invitation only, but nothing to do with the press) on electronic publishing in Oxford in March. Are you invited? Unfortunately I can't go - it clashes with ACS. A recent article I read suggests that end-users are much less concerned about archiving issues than librarians are. Wendy -- Dr Wendy A Warr Wendy Warr & Associates, 6 Berwick Court Holmes Chapel, Cheshire CW4 7HZ, England Tel/fax +44 (0)1477 533837 wendy@warr.com http://www.warr.com chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)