Re: Who's on this listserver???

[rowe@lepomis.psych.upenn.edu (Mickey Rowe)]

Well, one person who is not currently on this list is David Schwimmer.
I too have noticed the actor, and will write more about that later.
At the moment, I'm waiting to hear back from David Schwimmer, the real
paleontologist, to find out if the actor is a relative.  In the mean
time...

About the newsgroup: Since people seem concerned with the number of
messages they receive per day, I want to make sure everyone knows they
can receive the list as a digest.  If you change your subscription so
that you receive the digest form, you'll receive the same amount of
information; it will just be packaged differently.  Typically you'll
get one large message per day, and that message will have a table of
contents listing the subject line and author of every message that
came in that day followed by the text of the individual messages.  If
this appeals to you, write to: listproc@lepomis.psych.upenn.edu Your
message should contain (in the body, not the subject line):

set dinosaur mail digest

As for the newsgroup, it would have to be
sci.bio.paleontology... rather than sci.geo..., because we've already
got s.b.p.  I actually kind of doubt that such a group could get
created, however, because the traffic on s.b.p isn't that high and
much of what's there is dinosaur-related.  If you still want to try,
though, perhaps Bob Myers will help by telling you what he had to
endure to get s.b.p created...

One other thing, Phil Bigelow mentioned that he was going to write
more about an article describing what can go wrong when
well-intentioned amateurs accidentally get in over their heads with a
paleontological find.  He then had second thoughts about copyright
issues because his message largely reproduced a newspaper article, so
he sent it to me first.  I'm not even a little bit of an expert on
copyright law, so I also don't know whether or not large excerpts of a
newspaper article can be redistributed this way.  Does anybody else
have any legal advice to help us decide whether or not the message can
be posted as written (i.e. copied)?

Thanks,

-- 
Mickey Rowe     (rowe@lepomis.psych.upenn.edu)