Want to reduce your email, but still read and participate in most of the worthwhile discussions from BEE-L? Best of Bee now has about 700 subscribers -- about the same as the number of BEE-L subscribers. Subscribing to 'Best of Bee' will bring you only selected and edited posts from BEE-L. This is a reduction of 10 to 95% in mail flow (about 95% in recent days). This option is best suited to experienced beekeepers and others who wish to avoid very basic discussions, chatter, flames, misdirected posts, loooonnggggg quotes and 'me too' responses but still track the significant activity on the BEE-L mailing list. How to receive Best of Bee: Send email to [log in to unmask], saying JOIN BESTOFBEE [log in to unmask] Replace [log in to unmask] in the above command with the actual email address to which you want the list to be sent -- (usually yours). IMPORTANT: If you are a BEE-L subscriber and want to turn off BEE-L without losing the privilege of posting to BEE-L in response to BEE-L messages received on 'Best of Bee', send email to [log in to unmask] saying SET BEE-L NOMAIL or Visit http://www.beekeeping.co.nz/email.htm to update or change your BEE-L and Best of Bee subscription options using a web form. For more information, send email to [log in to unmask], saying SEND BESTBEE in the subject line. You will receive a text file within a day or so, or simply visit http://www.internode.net/HoneyBee/Bee/bestofbe.htm For those who want to know more about the selection and editorial policies of Best of Bee, send email to [log in to unmask], saying SEND CRITERIA in the subject line or simply visit http://www.internode.net/HoneyBee/Bee/criteria.htm Allen --- You can search the BEE-L archives by sending email to [log in to unmask] saying SEARCH BEE-L "key phrase" Substitute several words for "key phrase" above. and use the double quotes to exclude hits on the individual words in the phrase. Single words do not need quotes.