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I think chris schumann did one of the best jobs i've seen of expressing useful guidelines for keeping the group useful and on-base. I would like to add a small but possibly useful note - people who are overwhelmed by the traffic can receive the list batched up in a single, digested message, delivered daily, as i do. (A 'help' message to thinkpad-request@cs.utk.edu may explain how to do this, i'm not sure.) Digests are a major boon - by packaging the day's traffic in a single email message, other email isn't obscured, and often entire conversations are collected together. I would also like to emphasize a point that chris and others have mentioned, concerning a big pet peeve of mine. Everyone should try to trim the messages they cite, if they must cite them at all. Most email interfaces provide some means of editing the citation, and often five to ten lines, plus the identification of the author, are all that is relevant and necessary. Sometimes more may be called for, but there's almost never an excuse for simply pasting in an entire message! If you're going to be posting cited responses to the list, you ought to learn enough about your interface to do so responsibly, and exercise that knowledge! (Sigh. I guess i've had that bottled up for a while...) ken manheimer klm@cnri.reston.va.us (703) 620-8990 x268 Corporation for National Research Initiatives 1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100 Reston, VA 22091