***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** Bill Richards' death is a great personal loss to many of us. But besides that, in recent years Bill saw that INSNA was outgrowing its gemeinschaft stage and that many management chores needed to be made more systematic. He developed a suite of programs for keeping track of membership, for receiving credit-card payments, for receiving abstracts for Sunbelt, and so on. We're going through the suite right now, but we're flying a bit blind. We ask everyone's forbearance as we learn to use the software. One sign of this learning will be more e-mail messages than usual (like this one) as we figure things out. These messages, by the way, go to all members of INSNA and all subscribers to SOCNET. Many colleagues are on one list, but others are on both. If you are on both lists you will get two copies of each message. Reminder: Deadline for abstracts is October 5. For details, go to http://www.insna.org/2008/sunbelt2008.html and click on deadlines. Thanks, The Sunbelt XXVII Organizers John Skvoretz Chris McCarty Russ Bernard _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.