Thanks again to everybody who participated in the finance sessions at the recent useR! 2004 conference. During the discussions, the idea of a mailing list for R and Finance came up. Thanks to Martin, such a list has now been created and can be accessed via the page https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-finance from which subscription requests can be made using the usual confirmation system employed by the mailman software. Everybody interested in 'Finance' (we will try not to be too picky regarding definitions) and R us cordially invited to subscribe. Also feel free to forward this message to interested colleagues. With best regards, Dirk -- FEATURE: VW Beetle license plate in California