Having lots of lists of chemistry links is an inefficient use of all the undoubted enthusiasm and experience out there. However, settling on a single centralised site as the 'authoritative list' is not the answer - in an increasingly fragmented scientific community, why should we expect a (say) spectroscopist to be able to categorise (say) organometallic links any better than Yahoo? Today's Chemistry is too big for a single list. The answer is to follow the ethos of the web - decentralise. . We should encourage the growth of specialist lists of links, and have a central index of these lists, ie use the 'WWW Virtual Library' aproach. This way we harness experience but don't stifle enthusiasm. All this needs is a bit of organisation. Any offers? Paul Deards Internet Publisher Society of Chemical Industry http://sci.mond.org/ ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)