I have recently recieved letters from people wondering where the Paleodiet
Digest has gone since no one has received one in quite some time.

A few things to keep in mind:

1) Digests only get sent out when someone sends a message to the list.

2) At this time we only have a couple of hundred subscribers.  Though this
may change in the next few months, and we know there are a number of people
reading the Symposium's contents strictly through the web without being
"subscribers" per se, this does naturally limit the amount of messages we
are likely to see.

3) Our standards for accepting messages are much higher than most other
lists, with a pretty high rejection rate.

4) While we don't forbid informality, speculation, or humor, we strongly
urge use of references whenever making important statements of fact that
may not be common knowledge. This tends to make it a bit more work to post
something than might

5) Most of our subscribers are professors or practicing researchers, who
only have so much time after all.

It's not that we have the rigorous requirements of a peer-reviewed
journal--we are a semi-formal discussion forum, not a repository for
doctoral theses--but combine all these factors and it should be
understandable that sometimes days may go by without any messages being
issued.  If this goes on too long (more than a week or two) then the list
moderator will likely post a message or two trying to "goose" the list back
into activity.  But under normal circumstances it's not unusual for the
list to go through periods of inactivity.

I am hoping our membership base will increase after the peer-reviewed
journals I mentioned a while ago receive the announcement I sent out about
what we're doing here.  I continue to be interested in any suggestions
anyone has for journals or other publications we might write to to attract
the interest of more researchers in various fields.  Please email me if you
have any ideas in that regard.

Thanks all.

 -=-

 "If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or
  acquired a new one, check your pulse, you may be dead."--Gelett Burgess