I'm back.  Thanks to all who sent advice on things to do
while I was gone.

Below is a quite an assortment of things that came in while I was
gone.  I've left them in chronological order although they might
have been easier to read if sorted by subject.  Sorry.

I'd like to encourage Peter Smakula to forward some of these music box
articles from the clocks group.  We've had some recent subscription
cancellations because there was too little on music boxes.

Jody

P.S.  I have put up an anonymous FTP server with the IP address of

           129.91.163.1
 [
 [ The domain name foxtail.com may be used.
 [
      Most of the digests are available there.  Please be sure to
      use your e-mail address as your password:

        enter command:    ftp foxtail.com
        enter user name:  anonymous
        enter password:   foobar@fumble.edu

      I hope to have a WEB Server up before the end of the year.  Once
      that is done, it should be possible to index all the individual
      articles, thus making it easy to search for "solenoids" or "music
      box repinning".