I am personally very much in favor of having a separate plant newsgroup. I am also in favor of another newsgroup that Dustin did not mention: An equipment newsgroup for discussion of cross-discipline equipment (filters, hoods, tanks, stands, etc.) David W. Webb Enterprise Computing Provisioning Texas Instruments Inc. (214) 575-3443 (voice) MSGID: DAWB (214) 575-4853 (fax) Internet: dwebb at ti_com (214) 581-2380 (pager)