Many apologies for my sending off my posting without appending the message I received from InfoSeek. Here is that message. Bob Kosovsky Student, PhD Program in Music Librarian Graduate Center Music Division City University of New York The New York Public Library [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] Listowner, [log in to unmask] Administrivia to: [log in to unmask] - -------My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my institutions------- ================ TEXT OF MESSAGE FROM INFOSEEK ========================= Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 14:49:36 -0700 From: Peter Chowla <[log in to unmask]> Subject: InfoSeek would like to archive your OPERA-L mailing list. Dear list-owner, InfoSeek Corporation provides comprehensive databases of searchable Internet information to Web users. Our Net Search service is by far the most popular way to search the Web today and handles over 1 million searches a day! Our full-text searchable database of over a month of over 13,000 publically available Usenet newsgroups is the best way to find any posting quickly and easily. We are currently extending our Internet content offerings to cover the best mailing lists on the Internet and want to include the information from your mailing list in our searchable database. If you agree to let us use your list as content we will subscribe with a mail alias of [log in to unmask] and begin indexing the postings. We would also like to ftp the list archives and index them for our database. In exchange, we will make the contents of your mailing list searchable and accesible without charge to you and your subsribers with our easy to use search software. Please let us know if you agree to having your mailing list included in our service and we'll get to work immediately to start adding it to our database. If you would like to check out InfoSeek, look at our home page at: http://www.infoseek.com You can also sign up for a free trial account which will give you access to our extensive collections of both commercial and Internet information. You can also try our free Net Search service at: http://www2.infoseek.com Thank you and we look forward to your response. Peter Chowla InfoSeek Corporation