The Dinosaur Mailing List to Merge with AOL-Time Warner

[MKIRKALDY@aol.com]

Mickey Rowe and I are pleased to announce the merger of the Dinosaur Mailing 
List with AOL-Time Warner, effective April 1.  We will both be staying on as 
executive advisors, but Steve Case will be your everyday moderator.  The 
changes in list operation will be seamless once everyone changes over ISPs to 
AOL. 

Many exciting new features will highlight this union of dinosaur science with 
Internet technology and publishing.  All messages will be instant messages, 
so that posts will appear live on subscribers' screens, and you can enjoy 
immediate feedback to ideas.  Favorite Places will actually take you to those 
places, through Time-Warner Travel.  

Subscriptions to the Dinosaur Mailing List will cost $21.95 per month, which 
includes 65 MB of postings. The mail greeting will be You've Got Feathers, 
and posts may include all types of ads, including ad hominem, ad hoc, and ad 
nausium. 

Writer-subscribers will be guaranteed publication through Time-Warner, 
including a possible movie sale.  One piece of artwork from each 
artist-subscriber will be purchased by John Lanzendorf and become a permanent 
part of his collection, replacing the SVP Lanzendorf PaleoArt Award. 

Jim Cunningham and Jeff Hecht have already begun installing 
state-of-the-dino-art fiber optics cable to connect your computer to the 
DMLAOLTW system.  Tom Lipka will be digging up your yard looking for mammal 
teeth, since he is now working on the  Arundeaol (in)formation.

If you sign on a friend, Dinosaur List artists will customize your 
surroundings with favorite paleo scenes.  Michael Skrepnick is standing by to 
paint dinosaur murals on the side of your home or office building, or you and 
your family can enjoy appearing in any of his paintings.  Dan Varner is on 
board to decorate aquariums and pool areas with Cretaceous seascapes which 
your current fish or guests will most likely never forget.

A communications satellite and space station called the Soaropod was launched 
on April 1.  Dr. Thomas Holtz is paleontologist-in-orbit at the station, 
generously beaming 500 hours of cladistics training down to classrooms around 
the world.  Luis Rey has been awarded the extreme honor of painting the metal 
skin of the craft, which incorporates feathers as solar panels. The 
Soaropod's sister ship, the Longisquamir, unfortunately crashed and burned 
after the Oregon-Kansas design team used 8 paired flat structures connected 
by a thin membrane as an airfoil.

Mickey Rowe has a new address from his stock option-purchased Santa Barbara 
ranch, Neuroland, but I will keep my present screen name after moving to the 
space station and remarrying Arthur C. Clarke.

As always, answers to questions can be found at our Administriviaol.

Mary Kirkaldy
DMLAOLTW VP