I was reading through the admin. forum and came across the topic 'shelf life' and it reminded me of a site 'WCHA'- a wooden canoe site that I have been on for over 20 yrs. Anyway in @2005/2006 they had a mainframe meltdown and we lost forever all the previous posts- very sad they were not able to recover any of it and this loss is brought up ocassionally and we all lament. the archives are a library full of info.-some more pertinent than others but it's there for all to use. I would also like to commend all the heroes/ volenteers who are responsible for Beemasters- IMHO, the best bee site on the market. congrats. lee...