] 5. FYI/on "corrupt list owners", etc. (5) The problem is not the contents of common sigfiles. The issue, here, is that various .com sources start using sig files for announcements to PUMP IN their PR "n" times/year ONCE they have been warned NOT TO abuse of the forum: This implies, in my view, a clear abuse of the unwritten law that "sig files may include whatever". In FISH-ECOLOGY, several senior scientists have complained for this and I'll make sure they'll not leave because of some lousy companies which do not care a damned thing about scientific work. Finally, I find, in general, AMERICAN listowners to be too liberal to abusers of such a kind. Those .com sources are the ones who'll, in the future, make the academic world PAY for their megalomaniac network abuses. Those who commented my poster objected to "netiquette" but did not read, in the text, the threat to academic list owners. PERHAPS, it is high time to have a forum for european list managers. Aldo-Pier Solari/FISH-ECOLOGY.