>If you and your subscribers feel Mr. Silbert is offensive in his behavior, >delete him from your list, put in filters to block him, get rid of gateways, >etc. I guess a bit more clarification is in order, since my name has been thrown into the fray. There is no need for filters, since I have not posted to the list since the middle of 1994. The issue is how the listowner can keep people like me from reading postings, which contain scientific material in our field of research. -- Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. Oceanography P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2 Personal InterNet Address: [log in to unmask] HED runs a WWW server at URL=http://biome.bio.dfo.ca