Jude wrote, >I thought that at least part of the reason we cannot share photos directly, >is because a few folks in the group have primitive internet connections? If >sharing a photo or two here and there is an issue, imagine what an >electronic publication would do. The electronic publication would be accessible online with a browser, not sent as an email. There is a huge difference in terms of download time between the two. If the e-journal is downloadable, it would be as a pdf, which can take a long time with a slow connection, but still better than getting a huge file as an email attachment if you have to get it through a telephone line. I know this because until three years ago I lived in a rural location where fast connections are not available unless you go for satellite, which is very expensive and also said to be slow to upload. "Primitive" describes a significant part of the US population at present, in terms of connectivity. Coverage is much greater in the more developed parts of Europe. It is not the fault of "a few folks in the group" that they don't have the prime service that Jude, and now I, enjoy. David Pilling addressed this in more severe terms in his latest post; remember that we have a lot more distance here in North America than in the UK to get cable across, and low population density in rural areas discourages companies from extending their services there. Jane McGary