I am back from travel. Three things to report: 1) we have 30000 registered people. 23000 are authors. 2) the disk on raneb is back to 94% full 3) I made several presentations on RePEc over the last two weeks. The multiple affiliation issue is still causing headaches. Christian Zimmermann FIGUGEGL! Department of Economics University of Connecticut 341 Mansfield Road, Unit 1063 Storrs, CT 06269-1063 http://ideas.repec.org/zimm/ christian.zimmermann@uconn.edu http://ideas.repec.org/e/pzi1.html