Hi Greg, I sure would hate to have people restricting what they post, even if all of it is not of interest to me. I manage the volume of mail at the incoming stage, by scanning the subject lines and deleting any messages with topics I don't want to follow. For instance, you could just delete all messages with "humor" in their titles, or "non-pd" or whatever. I have some days where I delete everything except medications, even though I know I'll certainly miss something of interest, just because I am too busy to deal with the volume. But I'd rather have the choice myself, rather than restrict the postings at the source. Another two things I do: direct mail to my home account rather than to my work account, and download/send all my mail before work, and read/answer it offline in the evenings. Good luck! Barbara cg for Harold(58/20)