At 2:25 PM 4/17/98, HELEN JC wrote: >REF: J. Hawkins suggestions. I join this list from time to time and leave it >when I no longer want to wade through all the extraneous material. I'd planed >to sign off today but I'd like to see if the folks who persist in writing to >each other on the list will take the suggestion. I automatically skip >anything written by these list people and if there is any "meat" in their >efforts I guess I just miss it. > >[log in to unmask] This is all too true. It just takes too much time and effort to open messages of a half dozen or so senders, names who have been associated over time with very personal and often extraneous "stuff." They get zapped - automatically. Too bad, as they probably do contain relevant matter from time to time. Bob