Hello, All. As a recent addition to this list (I started participating in Oct.), and as someone fairly new to both bee research and beekeeping, I would like to add my voice to the fray. There has been very little on bee-line that wasn't immediately understandable posted, and anything that was confusing has been clarified within one or two responses. Had I not been told about this list by a bee researcher, I doubt I would ever have found it, since I am also new to electronic networks, and had turned up very little of use through gophers and key word searches. I think that the community currently on this list is small enough that the "traffic" is courteous, helpful, and not too time-consuming. However, that may be because there is little knowledge that it is here. I think the idea of developing a FAQ is an excellent one, and I would like to see the FAQ available, along with some reference to beeline, through related conferences and other forums. However, I think that the dialogue between practitioners and researchers is invaluable to both parties, that creating a separate "hobby only" forum may decrease necessary communication which maintains the relevance of research and serves the needs of beekeepers. Tracking list traffic is very time-consuming; I would much rather have one list per interest area to follow. Is anyone interested in simply making bee-line better known and more accessible through some sort of generalized postings? Isn't there already enough factionalization of knowledge and communication going on? Jackie