>However, the EARN BoD - volunteer war will probably prevent Eric, Jose Maria >and other Listserv experts to be able to devote much time or effort in this >matter. Jose-Maria would probably not be allowed to say this in public, now that he has signed this contract forcing him to shut up his loud mouth (thereby completely solving any and all possible underlying problems), but the contract in question doesn't prevent *me* from speaking about things he had told me in private (that was before the contract got signed in fact). As you may already know, Jose-Maria will leave GMD around the 1st of april (that's not an april joke). His plans are to take some well-deserved vacations after that, and then to move to a country "where there are so little phone lines that there doesn't even exist the remotest possibility of an EARN node". The reasons for his desire to put as much space as possible between himself and EARN should be obvious enough. The net result is that Jose-Maria will not participate in any type of volunteer effort in the future. I have, I think, already indicated that any volunteer effort I have done since the Israel EARNTECH meeting or may do in the future will not be available to EARN. Eric "O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew; Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon against self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on it! O fie!" (Hamlet, act I, somewhere around scene 2 if I remember correctly)