Thank you for your kind response, Emily! Gracious and patient, wow, that is nice. I'll be sure to save it it case I ever need to show it to my Mom. (Hahahaha. Actually, Mom and I get along very well!) As for Listservs, yeah, the strengths of professional Lists can also be their weaknesses. I'm in a one person function and I love the sense of community I sometimes get from reading the Archives List and the Recmgmt-L. But I also have to step back sometimes and remind myself that there definitely is a whole other world out there. My world when I worked in NARA (where almost everyone was a history major) is very different from my world at GAO. At GAO, I am the sole historian. The GAO analysts' majors range from accounting to economics, social sciences, public administration, etc. As GAO states on its website, "More than half of our staff have doctoral or master's degrees from leading universities in such areas as public administration, public policy, law, business, computer science, accounting, economics, and the social sciences." It's a cool group of people. Our recruiting page is at http://www.gao.gov/jobopp.htm . Scroll down to the section and "why work at GAO" and you'll see the part from which I quoted. My history articles are at http://www.gao.gov/about/history/splash.htm . Thanks for your nice note! I hope you and others will continue to post on the List and remind us to keep our horizons broad! Maarja -----Original Message----- From: Emily Brown <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask] Sent: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:46:42 -0700 Subject: Re: PS Fwd: How to interest young people in history... Maarja, Thank you for your ameliorating response. I sometimes feel like people who participate in these listservs are a very narrow cross-section of society. You are quite gracious and patient. Emily Brown A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>