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FEBRUARY, 1997

Date: 28 February, 1997
Name: Todd Messina
Email: messina@gte.net
URL: http://expert.cc.purdue.edu/~bugatti
Submitted from: Purdue University, West Lafayette, in USA
Found: Web Crawler Search Engine Comments: I was trying to find some information on the Wolf Spider, because I saw one when staying at my aunt's house this August. She lives in East Killara, outside of Sydney. None of my friends believe me when I told them I saw this huge spider walking across the ceiling in my aunt's house. Well, I'll try some of you links. G'Day

Date: 25 February, 1997
Name: Michael Hutchinson
Email: neil @ix.net.au
Submitted from: Lithgow,NSW
Found: Looking for info on spiders
Phrase: Fantastic!

Date: 25 February, 1997
Name: Peter Szabo
Email: petersz@adelaide.dialix.oz.au
Submitted from: Adelaide
Found: Searched for "Australian white tip spider"
Phrase: Great!
Comments: I found the information really useful, easy to access, unlike looking up an encyclopedia............thank you very much

Date: 25 February, 1997
Name: Bruce Fleenor
Email: BFleenor@Aol.com
Submitted from: Yahoo
Phrase: Great!
Comments: Very well done. The picture came out unfocused but that might be my problem, not yours. Anyway, very well written and easy to use. Thanks.

Date: 23 February, 1997
Name: Chantelle
Email: roywil@ozemail.com.au
Submitted from: Sydnet
Found: Web search
Phrase: A pizza would taste really good right now!
Comments: Thanks for the great information for my school project.

Date: 23 February, 1997
Name: Kate Alexander
Email: blanerne@webfront.net.au
Submitted from: NSW, Australia
Found: Yahoo - looking for whitetailed spiders
Phrase: Definitely a life changing experience!
Comments: Well done 5A. I'm most impressed. How long did it take to set up? I love the creative work too. One question - what is the real name of the huge dark brown house spider that we all call Tarantula? Our kids call one of ours "Itsy Bitsy" - it's HUMUNGOUS!!!!
Reply: It's probably a Huntsman, Kate, they are usually the ones we see hanging around our houses at night.

Date: 22 February, 1997
Name: Susan Lynch
Phrase: Fantastic!

Date: 20 February, 1997
Name: Tony Johnston
Email: d1276pn1@ozemail.com.au
Submitted from: Boggabri Primary School NW NSW
Found: Looking up spider bites
Phrase: Fantastic!
Comments: Please include pictures of actual bites and what they look like.
Reply: Actual pictures of bites are a little hard to come by I'm afraid. If anyone has some they could send us I'd be glad to include them

Date: 20 February, 1997
Name: Steve and Jeffrey Beisel
Email: rascals @icdc.com
Submitted from: West Chester, Penna, USA
Found: Surfing on the topic Spiders
Phrase: I'll remember this for the rest of my life!
Comments: Jeffrey wanted to learn more about spiders. He is learning about them in his first grade class. This was a great web page for him to learn from. Thanks.

20 February, 1997
Name: Jill Jones
Submitted from: Canada
Found: Searched for Spiders
Phrase: I'll remember this for the rest of my life!
Comments: The info is excellent for teaching resources... the kids loved it too!!!

Date: 19 February, 1997
Name: Judy Gwaltney
Email: gwaltney@sdp2.philsch.k12.pa.us
Submitted from: Web Crawler
Found: Looking for spiders
Phrase: Fantastic!
Comments: Some of the special education students in my school are doing a year-long project on spiders. They are ages 5-7 and will definitely enjoy your spider poetry. This site is totally wonderful!

Date: 19 February, 1997
Name: Alexandra Mitchell
Email: jamesm@ozemail.com.au
Submitted from: Ipswich, QLD
Found: Looking for spiders
Phrase: Great!
Comments: Couldn't find our spider. How might we get information on it?

Date: 18 February, 1997
Name: Gavin Liggett
Email: gavinpav@iafrica.com
Submitted from: South Africa
Found: Hotbot Search Engine
Phrase: Great!
Comments: Your pages were a great help and provided lots of info for a school project that my daughter is busy with. Thanks for a great site!

Date: 18 February, 1997
Name: Sarah Ayres
Submitted from: Lexington,Virginia, USA
Found: Stumbled upon it while doing a research project on poisonous spiders.
Phrase: Fantastic!

Date: 18 February, 1997
Name: Natalie Paredes
Email: nparedes@kings.k12.ca.us
Submitted from: Hanford, CA
Found: Surfing on Yahoo
Phrase: Great!
Comments: My seven year old daughter, Natalie, is delighted to find your web site. We found a black widow spider hiding underneath our bar-b-que grill and created a small habitat for it in a jar. Natalie wanted to learn more about spiders and your web site was a wonderful start. Outstanding layout and graphics. Well done.

Date: 17 February, 1997
Name: Adam Huston
Email: Adam15200@aol.com
Submitted from: Clive, IA
Found: Web Crawler
Phrase: Great!

Date: 17 February, 1997
Name: Daniel Harmon
Email: spectros@bellsouth.net
Submitted from: Mathews, NC, USA
Found: Lycos
Phrase: Fantastic!
Comments: I am using some of this information for my sixth grade science report. Thank you.

Date: 15 February, 1997
Name: First Assembly Christian School
Submitted from: Internet Explorer
Found: Searching on spiders, insects
Phrase: Great!
Comments: Very informative, thanks for going to the trouble, this will help my daughters teacher immensely!!

Date: 14 February, 1997
Name: John Deneen
Email: mdeneen@rmi.net
Submitted from: Montrose,CO, USA
Found: Savvy Search
Phrase: A pizza would taste really good right now!
Comments: Thanks for the information about spiders

Date: 14 February, 1997
Name: Sean Forbes
Email: seanfo@erols.com
Submitted from: Falls Church, Virginia, USA
Phrase: Best page I've seen all year!
Comments: The web page you have put together is excellent! Kudos to all of you.

Date: 12 February, 1997
Name: Monya Baker
Email: bakermo@hugse1.harvard.edu
Submitted from: Cambridge, MA
Found: Searching for info on spiders and I found it!
Phrase: Fantastic!
Comments: Great work!

Date: 12 February, 1997
Name: Rochedale South State School
Email: Rochedale.South @ mailbox.uq.edu.au
Submitted from: School library
Found: Teachers' favourites
Phrase: Fantastic!
Comments: We all liked your Web Site!

Date: 12 February, 1997
Name: Tim Courtland
Email: redback@iap.net.au
Submitted from: All over
Found: I looked
Phrase: These choices stink!
Comments: A great page.
Very Important information.
I think you're doing one hell of a good job!!!!

Date: 11 February, 1997
Name: Kellie Erie
Submitted from: Newell
Found: Looking for spiders
Phrase: Fantastic!
Comments: Your home page kicks butt!

Date: 10 February, 1997
Name: Jonathon Wing
Phrase: Fantastic!

Date: 10 February, 1997
Name: Andy Marcos
Email: andy@bmd.com.au
Submitted from: Brisbane
Found: Mr Finlay threatened me
Phrase: Definitely a life changing experience!
Comments: Jeff, Eureka!

Date: 10 February, 1997
Name: Brandy La Montagne
Email: ChicoXGirl@AOL.com
Phrase: Fantastic!

Date: 10 February, 1997
Name: Guilherme Andrada
Email: daniele@visualbyte.com.br
Submitted from: Brazil
Found: Yahoo
Phrase: Fantastic!
Comments: Obrigado pelo prazer que me foi dado em descobrir o maravilhoso mundo das aranhas ao qual sou fã!!! Gostaria de obter mais informações sobre aranhas australianas e coloco a disposição minhas informações sobre aranhas da floresta Amazonica Obrigado!!

Date: 9 February, 1997
Name: Jane
Email: JTaylo6529@aol.com
Found: Typed in spiders on search
Phrase: Fantastic!
Comments: I needed some information on tarantulas. Thank you!

Date: 8 February, 1997
Name: Tim Osland
Email: fort@loom.net.au
Submitted from: Sydney, Australia
Found: Looking up White Tailed Spiders
Phrase: Great!

Date: 5 February, 1997
Name: Luiz Ernesto Costa Schmidt
Email: rsf5502@procergs.com.br
Submitted from: Porto Alegre - Brasil
Found: I was looking for information about spiders
Phrase: Great!

Date: 4 February, 1997
Name: Mark Gibson
Email: mark.gibson@sdrc.com
URL: www.sdrc.com
Submitted from: Milford, Ohio
Found: Search Engine (Brown Recluse Spider)
Phrase: A pizza would taste really good right now!
Comments: Other phrases:
I won't be able to sleep tonight.
I'll have to go and buy a full Kevlar body suit.

Date: 4 February, 1997
Name: Parker Evans
Email: gregevan@softcom.net
Found: Search engine
Phrase: Great!
Comment: Greetings from Rocklin, California, USA (near Sacramento)

Date: 3 February, 1997
Name: Valda Telfer
Submitted from: Bangkok, Thailand
Found: Through the home page
Phrase: Fantastic!
Comments: An Aussie mum from Sydney with three little children, I'm now well informed about the red-back and funnelweb for when we return to live!

Date: 3 February, 1997
Name: Johan Nyman
Email: johan.nyman@swipnet.se
Submitted from: Södertälje, Sweden
Found: In Web Crawler under "spiders"
Phrase: Fantastic!
Comments: My hobby has been spiders and reptiles for the whole of my life. If you sell spiders, most wanted "brachypelma emilia", or facts of them, please send me ordering lists to this address,
Johan Nyman
Nygatan 27a

Date: 3 February, 1997
Name: Max Lowe
Email: kfac@midcoast.com
Submitted from: Kempsey, NSW, Australia
Found: By search
Phrase: Fantastic!
Comments: I work as an Ambulance officer in the Ambulance Service of NSW and I think that you have created an excellent reference page, keep up the good work.

Date: 3 February, 1997
Name: Erica Harvey
Email: clarkharvey@sprintmail.com
Submitted from: Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Found: Studying spiders, from Arachnology
Phrase: Fantastic!
Comments: Great work! I was studying spiders for school and this really helped.

Date: 3 February, 1997
Name: Paul Leszczynski
Email: lesz@telusplanet.net
Submitted from: Alberta, Canada
Found: Search spiders
Phrase: Great!

Date: 3 February, 1997
Name: Amanda and Chris Gebhart
Email: Mikegeb@aol.com
Submitted from: Middleton, New Jersey, USA
Found: Search on spiders
Phrase: Great!
Comments: Thanks for all of your hard work on this page. We are 6 and 5 years old and we wanted to learn about spiders instead of reading bedtime stories. This was terrific! Thanks! We think it is really neat to see a page from Australia.

Date: 3 February, 1997
Name: Jenni
Email: IndTenn@aol.com
Submitted from: Indianapolis,Indiana
Found: Just surfing
Phrase: Great!

Date: 3 February, 1997
Name: Mary
Email: exelent@onaustralia.com.au
Submitted from: Mollymook, NSW
Found: By searching
Phrase: Fantastic!
Comments: Keep up the good work - your information was most valuable.

Date: 2 February, 1997
Name: Andrew
Submitted from: Kansas City, USA
Found: School work
Phrase: Fantastic!

Date: 2 February, 1997
Name: Michael-Ann McAboy
Email: McAboyFam@aol.com
Submitted from: Home Sweet Home
Found: Searched for the key word "Spiders"
Comments: I am petrified of spiders. But also have a fascination for the creatures. Your photos and text are great! I will definitely bring my 5 year old to this page often !
From,
The McAboy Family in Kent, Washington, U.S.A (about 10 miles south of Seattle)

Date: 2 February, 1997
Name: Richard Hagger
Email: RMSC3@AOL.COM
Submitted from: Dewsbury, England
Found: Searching for spiders on Web Crawler
Phrase: Great!

Date: 1 February, 1997
Name: Joe Kelly
Email: mlkelly@mindspring.com
Submitted from: Dallas, Texas
Found: Searching spiders
Phrase: Great!
Comments: Cool page, thanks!

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