Just an FYI: Having participated in pets.alt in the 1980s, on the list which preceded the FML and on the FML from the start... We few online ferret folks then went from the pets list to pets.alt and then formed the first pets.alt.ferrets but had some harassers, so the original pets.alt.ferrets was dissolved when Chris Lewis began the FML around 21 years ago (or is it around 22 now?). There have been at least 2 later renditions of pets.alt.ferrets which started afterward, but the original one was dissolved when the FML began and it was a decent while before the second one appeared. The FML is the longest lived continual ferrets internet list in existence and for most of its life Bill Gruber has been the moderator. Bill even helped people before that when he was just one of us list members. He provided the first anonymity function which was for people who lived in FFZs because there were a number more of those back then. (And if you think this is strange, Steve, my husband and a friend were the ones who first got two general internet predecessors talking with each other. I think it was ARPAnet and another at a major lab, but forget the details, and another friend joined some others up. The original linked places were a few universities, national labs, a few rare other labs (like the old Bell Labs) and the military (hence ARPA), so Steve precedes what is usually talked of as the actual Internet for being on-line, and back then a person could read everything on it in a matter of minutes.) Sukie (not a vet) Recommended ferret health links: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/ http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html [Posted in FML 6087]