Here are some minuses of "outing" math-fun in print: 1) Having a flood of new subscribers could be a drain on Rich's time for a week or two. 2) There is the risk that a few people who don't fit in with the group and who post too much could lower the overall quality of the posts and take away some of the value of math-fun for the rest of us (remember what happened to sci.math?). 3) I'd hate to put Rich in the position of having to ban people from the group (temporarily or permanently), especially in cases where the "offense" isn't a matter of rudeness but a matter of the content of the person's posts. But I think that the big plus of publicizing the group (in a low-key way) is that we'd be opening up the group to people who should be part of math-fun but don't have the good fortune to be part of the informal network that brought us all into math-fun in the first place. As things stand now, we run the risk of turning the group into an old boy's network, not by design but by default. (And yes, when I say "boy" I say it advisedly. There aren't many women in the group, and they seldom post. This is one sign that we aren't casting our net wide enough to bring in the people who should be in the group but who don't know about it.) Jim