A few people wrote to me saying they had not received the FML for several days. The problem was due to a router misconfiguration in New York area between Sprint, a major internet carrier, and Applied Theory, one of CUNY's internet providers. It's been repaired and I hope the few subscribers who did not receive the last few FMLs have since received them all. If anyone is still missing any please let me know which dates are missing and I will resend the missing ones to you. There is lots of news in this FML -- I don't know what to put first. Some bad news, unfortunately...but much good news too. At least take a look at the first few posts. The last few FMLs were pretty brief; I suppose this one makes up for those! Dooks... Bill [Posted in FML issue 2739]