Dear colleagues, I was on duty travel with connectivity problems when I received and accepted Nancy Baim's nomination to run for an Open seat. Since I could only send mail from hotmail I could not access the list. Thus the short statement I prepared could not circulate through it, as was the case for most candidates. Hopefully no one considered that I thought no introduction or explanation was owed on my part. I am sorry anyway. We live in an era where IT makes everything possible, except the necessary :-) I'm not less sorry to miss the AoIR 2 conference since I am in another meeting in Bonn Germany, for an on-going research project. Sincerely Michel Menou **==**==**==**==**==**==**==**==**==**==**==**==**==** Dr. Michel J. Menou Professor of Information Policy Department of Information Science School of Informatics City University Northampton Square London EC1 0HB, U.K. Mail to: Michel.Menou@wanadoo.fr menou@soi.city.ac.uk http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/informatics/is/mjm.html