I'm hoping ferret advocates can keep a tone of polite but firm reason in their correspondence with officials. I like the idea someone had of writing the letter you want to write to the Evil Brain-Eating Rabid DFG Robots From Hell, then tearing it up (or saving it in an album), then writing the polite, concise, calm, well-reasoned letter. Sounds to me like the next phase in the California battle is the crucial one. I want to find out who the members on our nect committee are, and write several of them polite, calm letters. I think the Assembly member who wants to kill all ferrets looks less reasonable than we do. I hope we can keep it that way. Todd Cromwell (Dors and Seldon) [Posted in FML issue 1960]