... :43 from: Martin Wynne Alan Turner wrote: As I understand it they still get to see your e-mail as it is held in an "Un-verified" e-mail box for 7-days. They can then choose to accept it. So really it's down to them rather than you. You can choose to do nothing and that put the onus on them to accept. Hi Alan, That's ok for general enquiries, but not as a response to an online order. When I receive a payment I like to acknowledge it within 24 hours at the most. Folks can get stroppy if they don't hear from me, heedless of the fact that the email address they keep supplying doesn't actually work. When I finally made contact with one customer and pointed out that his quoted email address was invalid, he said he wondered why he hadn't received any email replies for the last 5 years! The problem is that with a downloaded product there is no real need to supply a postal address, so many folks don't. Next ...

... the portal covers five collections, and a bit over 60,000 maps: A Vision of Britain through Time British Library David Rumsey Collection Moravian Library National Library of Scotland We are launching after only four months of a fifteen month project so we have time to add both more features to the software and more collections. We already have several additional map libraries which will definitely be added, but we are looking for more. To be included, maps must have been scanned, obviously, and they must be directly accessible online without payment or passwords. There is no need for the maps to be in any particular viewer, but we need to hold the real-world coordinates of the corners; if you do not have these we can maybe help. Although we have time to improve the site's software, it is already quite polished and we want to keep it simple: this is aimed at the generality of users, rather than either cartographic historians or GIS experts. Our aim is simply to help users find maps, and pass them to the relevant ...