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Rich Morelli expressed some concern regarding whether, if there were a Parkinson's newsgroup, everyone would be able to access it. Some people have only e-mail, some have limited newsgroup access. There are two aspects to this. Posting to a newsgroup - This possible via e-mail if it is a function provided by the particular e-mail program you are using. My internet service offers several e-mail programs, and I chose one called Pine. It lets you post to a newsgroup or send mail to a regular e-mail address or both. Reading from a newsgroup - The newsgroup messages do not go into your mail boxes, but instead are stored on computers called news servers, which are accessed by newsreader programs. Subscribing to a newsgroup means telling the newsreader program which newsgroups to fetch for you from the news server. If your internet access provider does not carry a newsgroup you are interested in, they might add it if you request. If you have no news- group access at all, but only e-mail, then there is still a way, but it's not all that convenient. Stanford University offers a news filtering and delivery service which selects newsgroup articles according to criteria you specify and then e-mails a maximum of 60 lines of each selected article periodically. If you want more than 60 lines of an article, you e-mail back to Stanford the newsgroup name and the ID number of the article. For details, send an e-mail message containing help end to [log in to unmask] The words help and end must be flush at the left. Phil