Hello everybody, I'm trying to establish a users' group for our department, the Department of Behavioral Sciences at the Ben-Gurion University. I hope to be able to bring my colleagues to the terminal to to use this means as a tool for enhancing intra-departmental communication. I believe that this tool can be useful only if supported by the chairperson of the department. He/she is the one who spends many hours dealing with present and future related issues. He needs a board for testing his ideas and getting informal feedback. I believe that a departmental users' group can be a very effective mean for maintaining communication with staff members during their sabbatical year. Still, my ideas as to how to run such a tool and how to increase its chances to survive are quite vague. Thus, I would appreciate any assistance. If you know of department that maintains a UG, please let me know! If you know of a UG that is a forumfor Departmental UGs, please let me know! If you have a suggestion, please let me know! Ran Chermesh Behavioral Sciences Dept. Ben-Gurion University Beer-Sheva 84105 Israel Bitnet: CHERMESH@BGUVM r.f. 1. Since I'm not a member on your list, please respond directly to me. 2. I apologize for writing to so many people at the same time. Some of the lists included may not be appropriate locations to begin with. Unfortunately, I don't have detailed information on your list. I based my judgement on the description of the list. Hope I didn't err too much. R.C.