This is a voice against making screen-l a usenet conference. I originally checked out film-l and cinema-l and found them big timewasters, with lots of fannish chit-chat. I think on those lists someone mentioned screen-l, and on screen-l someone mentioned h-film, and I took the little bit of extra trouble to subscribe. I find the discussions here at a much higher level, with lots of useful information and many thoughtful insights shared. I think this would possibly degenerate pretty quickly as a usenet conference. The average user checking out usenet would have no basis for understanding a different character belonging to the cinema, film, screen lists, and I'm afraid they would all homogenize. Screen-l seems to have a fairly broadbased, international group of subscribers. Has this developed simply by word of screen, and through those brave enough to search the list of lists? If screen-l were a usenet conference, I gather netters who don't have access to usenet would still be able to access sceen-l via e-mail, as now? Regards, Robert Robert Withers Film Department Brooklyn College Brooklyn, New York 11210 Bitnet: [log in to unmask] (718) 951-5664 Internet: [log in to unmask]