----------------------------------------------------------------- Summary: The plea in my earlier posting was to help keep the NZ magazine going. The newsletter *should* still remain after the efforts at cost cutting! ----------------------------------------------------------------- I'm sorry if I've caused some confusion to readers of the BEE-LIST. The National Beekeepers Assn actually has two publications - a quarterly magazine, the NZ Beekeeper, and a monthly newsletter, Buzzwords. Several readers of the list thought I was referring to the pending demise of the newsletter, a much 'chattier' and informal vehicle... I post (as regularly as I can remember!) Buzzwords to the LIST (as I have it on disk after helping to produce it). The NZ Beekeeper magazine would most likely be found in nearby research libraries. It has a 50 year publishing history (Buzzwords has been around for only 5) and has been, at times, one of the finest research and industry organisation magazines in the world. The decision by the National Executive is to scrap the magazine, but keep the newsletter (in SOME format - that's not so sure at this stage!). Assuming Buzzwords survives, I'll continue to post it to here, hopefully. I am saddened at the potential passing of a major research-publishing magazine, and think the international beekeeping scene will lose something with its passing. ------------------------------------- Nick Wallingford Bay of Plenty Polytechnic (East coast, N Island, New Zealand) Internet [log in to unmask] -------------------------------------