Some notes

[Josiah Carlson]

>     >> (I can't believe I am replying to someone with the email
>     >> address bearophile 'bearophile')
> 
>     bearophile> I am learning, like everybody else.
> 
> He probably just thought that your email address is amusing. Which it
> is, it the internetish neo-juvenile fashion. Laughing at such a name
> is probably not the most mature thing to do, but some of us just can't
> help it...

I wasn't laughing at the name.

Perhaps the original poster is an animal conservationist, concerned
about humans encroaching on the environments of Black, Brown, Grizzly,
etc., bears.  Perhaps it is something else.

I don't know, nor do I really want to know.
 - Josiah