This message is of interest only to users of package "sn". In early 2007, I have posted an announcement on the package web site http://azzalini.stat.unipd.it/SN/announce2.html about a forthcoming "version 1". This will be a deeply revised version, with substantial chances both in the internal working and in the calling statements. At that time, it did not make much sense to spread the information so widely, since the appearance of "version 1" was so far ahead in time. "Version 1" is still under construction, but there is a fair chance that it will be made available in 2009. So, at this stage, I thought appropriate to remind people that sooner or later the existing functions may disappear, at least with their present names. best wishes Adelchi Azzalini -- Adelchi Azzalini <azzalini at stat.unipd.it> Dipart.Scienze Statistiche, Universit? di Padova, Italia tel. +39 049 8274147, http://azzalini.stat.unipd.it/