re: PalAss Newsletters

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Dear all:

Fernando wrote:
> >ftp.nhm.ac.uk/paleonet/Newsletters
> 
> I would like to download the Newsleter of the Palaeontological
> Association. But when I try to connect FTP.NHM.AC.UK, my ftp display
> me the message:  "host unknown". Didn't you wrote wrongly ftp site
> address in your previous message ?

Interestingly enough, I also get "unknown host" when I try:
ftp.nhm.ac.uk/paleonet/Newsletters

Instead, try just:  ftp.nhm.ac.uk

This works fine.  Then, once you are in, giving the command:
cd paleonet

and then:

cd Newsletters

and you should be in the right directory.  This worked for me.

Also interestingly enough, Mark Purnell posted a while ago to say that the
newsletter is available on the WWW at the URL:
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/paleonet/PalAss/Newsl26.html

Unfortunately this one does not seem to fly either (at least for me).
http://www.nhm.ac.uk
will put you in the NHM's home page, but there does not seem to be any link
from there to paleonet.  Does this just mean it has not been implemented yet?

Finally, on the matter of the paleonet Publication Exchange, I am aware that
many people, like Neil, do not have ftp facility.  The consensus of a few
people I have spoken to recently 
seemed to be that it would be a good idea to be more proactive and post
the weekly lists of offered/wanted publications to paleonet itself rather than
just leaving them on an ftp site which many people do not have the time or
facility to visit.  This is not infeasible, since the lists are not that
long.  If anyone has any comments, I am pleased to receive them off net.

Finally Finally, I don't know if Stig Bergstrom is on paleonet, but if you 
are, thanks for the reprint of Girvan succession conodonts which arrived
just this morning.

Tim
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