Brian writes: I know that this is really unfair, and I may well miss some valuable >contributions, but I did a quick bit of analysis and found that if I >arbitrarily chop out the contributions of the three most prolific writers >to the list, I saved myself from reading 120 emails -yes, 120. So thats >how its going to be from now on ; those three will go back onto my list >automatically when their output drops below 3 e-mails per week. It's a >hard world out there, but what else can we do? > > My mail server was having problems a couple of weeks ago and I ran into the same logjam. It was a nightmare. Have you discovered a way to block the download of some mail? Or are you talking about mass deleting here? Many of us would really appreciate a solution to the problem. Kathie Tollifson [log in to unmask]