This is an announcement for the paper "Operators on \(C[0,1]\) preserving copies of asymptotic \(\ell_1\) spaces" by Ioannis Gasparis. Abstract: It is shown that every operator on \(C[0,1]\) which preserves a copy of an asymptotic \(\ell_1\) space, also preserves a copy of \(C[0,1]\). Archive classification: Functional Analysis Mathematics Subject Classification: 46B03 The source file(s), asymp.tex: 73653 bytes, is(are) stored in gzipped form as 0412426.gz with size 20kb. The corresponding postcript file has gzipped size 100kb. Submitted from: ioagaspa@math.auth.gr The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/math.FA/0412426 or http://arXiv.org/abs/math.FA/0412426 or by email in unzipped form by transmitting an empty message with subject line uget 0412426 or in gzipped form by using subject line get 0412426 to: math@arXiv.org.