At 12:36 PM 5/9/97 EDT, you wrote:
>In the beginning (1989), BEE-L was intended as a discussion group for
>bee biology.  It was not solely honey bees, but ALL bees.  The
>discussion dealt with NEW issues, not beekeeping issues.  It was a rich
>group populated by researchers, most of whom spun off their own
>discussion lists (SOCINSCT and BOMBUS-L to name two) when BEE-L was
>taken over by "the beekeepers".  The closest you will come to the BEE-L
>of old is Tom Sanford's APIS-L ([log in to unmask]).  I looked
>over the APIS-L subscription list and discovered where the big boys
>went.  Tom is very careful and wise to remind subscribers what is and
>is not appropriate for discussion on his list, and is quick to direct
>general beekeeping discussion to BEE-L.
>
Quite frankley I learned moore from BEE-L in a week then from APIS-L in all
the time I was on it so it was cancelled.