Staffan Lindeberg wrote me in email recently: >I cannot tell you how happy I am about PALEODIET, which seems to turn out >into something very important for my own research. ... >If it is not too much trouble for you I would appreciate a few words about >how its existence is spread to the global research community as well as to >invited individuals. If you find this of general interest you can of course >post the answer to the list group. As this is very much a non-paying, volunteer enterprise for me, I have limited time and resources for spreading the word about the Symposium. My hope is that list members (such as Staffan) will either send me email addresses of people who I might send an announcement to, or will just send invitations themselves to people or groups who will be interested (it is not necessary that I be the person to contact everybody). Here is the current announcement which I use for selected groups, which any list member may send to any person or group that you believe will be interested. My only stipulation would be that this NOT receive wide distribution on groups on the internet full of intellectually questionable elements (such as rec.food.vegetarian or alt.support.diet), and that you keep in mind that we are generally only interested in promoting the list to serious-minded scholars and researchers: The Paleolithic Diet Symposium listserv is a semi-private, semi-moderated symposium for researchers with interest in and knowledge of primitive diets and their relevance to modern life. Our primary audience is biologists, paleontologists, anthropologists, physiologists, and health care professionals. Students or members the lay public are not necessarily excluded, but any messages submitted to the list membership will be reviewed before distribution to assure that the information presented, or the questions posed, reflect an appropriate level of understanding of the science underlying the subject under discussion. If you would like to subscribe, please fill out the following questionnaire and send it to [log in to unmask] This is a standard questionnaire for all prospective subscribers to PALEODIET. You are not required to give us more than your name and email address, although we would appreciate having the other information. Any information you give on this questionnaire is solely for the list owners' information, and will NOT be sold or used for any form of business solicitation. Name: Preferred E-mail Address: Title: Institution: Phone Number: Research Areas: Other Areas of Interest: Your list membership will be confirmed by the Listowner. You should receive a message confirming your membership within a few days of sending in your subscription request. Thanks for your interest! Owner: Dean Esmay [log in to unmask]