It is with great sadness I call to your attention the end of an era. Today marks the last time you will have Jim Conrad's marvelous Naturalists Newsletter delivered to your e-mail box. In his own words: NO MORE EMAILED NEWSLETTERSLast weekend, Earth Day, issuing this Newsletter by email once again caused my server, FatCow.com, to remove my whole BackyardNature.net website from the Internet. They said the Newsletters had been identified as spam. FatCow has told me that henceforward if I issue more than 20-30 emails per hour they'll take down my site. However, they are giving me permission to make this one-time last mailing. Though I shall continue writing Newsletters and placing them in my online archives, future Newsletters will not be emailed.From now on to read the Newsletters you'll just have to remember to check out the most recently issued edition at http://www.backyardnature.net/n/ I don't know how may of you are Facebook users, but I am not. Why? For the very reason that they do not respect people's privacy and disseminate their information to a variety of other sites. I realize that any time you go online, you take that risk, but I will make it as hard as I can for them to get mine by being a non-participant in their little ploy to make $$$. I am not sure if complaining to FatCow.com would do any good, but I for one intend to give it a try.Sadly ,Louise
