From: [log in to unmask] Dear Bee-Liners: "I took my harp to the party but nobody asked me to play". Well, in this case (where the "party" is the Workshop on non-Apis pollinators in Utah in August, and the "harp" is the paper that I had intended to give at the aforementioned Workshop), it wasn't just that I wasn't asked to play my harp, but the "Organizers" (a.k.a. Torchio and Tepedino) didn't even invite me to come to the party! Well, who needs to go to Utah in August anyway--better to stay in Toronto and chew on some sour academic grapes . . . but I DO regret not having the chance to give my paper: I thought that it was one of my better efforts and certainly deserved a place in any non-Apis pollinator workshop. So what I have decided to do is to "publish it" on the BEE-L (I think that I quite like the idea of electronic journals--especially ones where all the refereeing can take place as a general free-for-all after the paper has been "published": it smacks of those vicious 19th Century meetings of British learned societies where people like the infamous Dr. Owen--a real charmer, that one--would combine personal attack with scholarly criticism to humiliate the guy who had just read his/her paper to the point where he/she just wanted to hide under a table!). So the paper will come to you as a forthcoming message on this LISTSERV. Enough people who are going to the Utah meeting are subscrib- ers of BEE-L to ensure that if the paper has any merit then it will get discussed in Utah anyway . . . but if you are not interested in non-Apis pollinators, then please feel free to ignore the thing entirely; and accept my apologies, if you will, for temporarily cluttering up your hard disk. [Oh, but let me add also that even if you AREN'T a non-Apis person, I have put in a few provocative comments about possible negative effects of honeybees on cranberry marshes at the end of the paper . . .] Sincerely, Chris Plowright. -- Chris Plowright - via the University of Ottawa Return addresses: via INTERNET: [log in to unmask] via UUCP : ...uunet!mitel!cunews!csi2!uplow!chris