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Dear Barbara: I have been very partial to you since I first read your first poster. Your notes are bright, colorful, vivacious, and most endearing and of course I love you for the support you have demonstrated to a lot of us Care Givers and our loved ones the PWP. This Parkinson community has become a caring and loving fraternity more so because of non Parkinsonian open hearted discussions. Yet I strongly disagree with you in this case. I need humor for survival as much as I need potatoes or broccoli (see, I even think Bush is wrong) and it has helped me to keep my sanity after escaping the Nazis. I do not want my Barbara's PD nor my medical problems to impinge on our values though it is increasingly reducing our activities. Another loving Barbara (Patterson) founded this program for the PD community to enable their own expressions about just everything affecting their being. Camilla Flintermann has expanded this for the CG who sometimes wanted more privacy, but sometimes encumbered the main list. They are just most beautiful for taking the responsibility. The Sparkle extension of this program aims for the same goal: to allow free expression for our community. This charge was assumed by three volunteers who believed that the main list was getting too crowded with extraneous non PD material. I was just a passer-by, a spectator, but still a willing participant of the list. I agree that 'pigs' were overtaking the main purpose of the list because our people, i.e. PWP and CG, needed to express their joy as well as their troubles. But the worse part of that, is that it repelled many newcomers who wanted to discuss strictly PD matters, and some old timers who could not cope with the inordinate size or number of the E-mail, and felt forced to abandon us. I belong to three PD lists, and I am wearing out, but I'd much rather resign from the Spanish and French list than this one. From a practical standpoint, I find it easier to go to the 'inbox' for serious mail, and to SPARKLE for the light stuff. I also handle humor material for our Capital Chapter of NPF that I also mail to many colleagues at the Holocaust Museum and our Temple. I have made a new folder for SPARKLE (thanks Charlie), and when the mail comes in, it is automatically separated. When I see non PD material from the main list, I'll just transfer it to SPARKLE for subsequent review. Whatever you do is not going to stop me from reading and admiring you from afar. Hugs and love, Michel Margosis 'Carpe Diem' PS Sorry about the length of this communication.