Dorothy C. Wertz and Philip R. Reilly 
The Shriver Center, 200 Trapelo Road, Waltham, MA 02452 
dwertz@shriver.org 

Geneletter (http://www.geneletter.com) is among the few informative and readable sites on ELSI topics aimed at the nonspecialist. It has received over 1 million hits and 200,000 site visits since September 1996. Currently it has about 450 users (2500 hits) a day, with an average session length of 9 minutes. Judging from our emails, many users are students, ranging from sixth grade to postgraduate, but some are college deans, science fiction writers, state policymakers, epidemiologists, and law professors. At least 14% are international, in Canada, Australia, UK, Germany, Singapore, Sweden, France, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Netherlands, Italy, Norway, Israel, Philippines, and Brazil. In North America, major user areas are VA, CA, OH, ONT, WA, MA, FL, PA, IL, and MD. Topics receiving greatest visitor attention are cloning (by far the most popular), genetics of homosexuality, genetic "Adam and Eve," overview of genetic screening, the calico cat, false paternity, teratogens, and eugenics. Geneletter has also been used in a course on Genetics and Identity at a four-year technical college, with evaluation of ethical views before and after use.