BEE-L is an mailing list, and therefore works primarily and best by email. The preferred method of participating is by subscribing and then receiving and sending emails, however, this interface is provided so that users who need to can attain access via the web.

Note: There can be a problem with this BEE-L web posting feature that is encountered under the following conditions:

• the first time a new, unregistered user posts, or

• the first time a registered user posts from a different computer

For whatever reason, after writing an article, then pressing the 'post' button, a request for registration info is encountered.  The user must fill the simple form out to proceed, but in the process, it is possible to lose entire posts.  That can be aggravating...

There is a workaround.  Either write your article in Windows® Notepad and then select (Ctrl+a) and copy (Ctrl+c) and paste (Ctrl+v) it into the browser window on the composing page, or copy the article you write in the browser window on the composing page to the clipboard before you press 'send'.  Then, if you encounter the dreaded registration screen, you can register, then go back and paste your message into the window again.

After you have registered once on a computer, you should not encounter the registration request again unless you delete all the cookies or change your username.  Nevertheless, it is wise to save a copy of each article in Notepad or another text editor until you see the confirmation screen -- just in case