Hi, Christine:

Sorry about the spammers, but they are hitting other YahooGroups as well.
This is a fairly recent phenomenon, and cannot be cured except by careful
moderation. A member of another group has failed in an attempt to stamp out
spammers, because the person who originally set up the group died a few
years ago! He left an enigmatic coded message, which was supposed to be able
to let the moderator in, but nobody has been able to solve the puzzle. The
only solution seems to be to copy the whole archive of the group over into a
new group, but nobody's had the energy to do this yet.

Bartok admirers might like to try download a broadcast from ABC FM during
the week of the WA Symphony Orchestra playing Peter Sculthorpe's 'Kakadu'.
This is twentieth-century music to stand beside anybody's, even Bartok's.
Great performance, too.

Best wishes
Bruce Gillespie
gandc@...