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Bruce, typical E-mail FAQs suggest that you repeat that portion of the original message so it is clear as to what you are replying to, such as: Bruce Anderson wrote: > I don't think there is a problem with List volume worth quitting the List > entirely. Why quit entirely & miss it all? If I were to need a breather I > would just let it accumulate & then go in and wipe it all out and start > over. Anything interesting or important is liable to rear its head again. > Or go in & delete all post with a Fw: or a Re: on 'em. Or all posts after > 9:00 PM. Or, if you feel you have to but my last choice, delete all from > members you consider particularly verbose or annoying (like me). Or, > develop your own strategy. Good ideas, I'm going to print them out and stick them up by my computer, if anyone has more I'd like to hear them. Here's one - if your going to be gone for a couple of days or more use "set PARKINSN nomail" ( send [log in to unmask]) then you don't have to delete and you save time on the crowded internet and space on your ISP's server. > > > The problem with volume is really that there are so many interesting topics > & all other manner of new things going on. When something like MJF happens > & there is too much posted on one topic, that, to me, is a good time to > delete whole days. This is when I like to scan everything so I don't miss something, (to each his own) :-) > There is some way of directing all your list mail to one "mailbox" to make > it easier to develop a volume coping strategy, but I'm afraid I don't know > it. Bob Chapman 65/4