In article <A5CE4192E3FE9B8606D89231@PSB> you write: >That would take a different tool than one which produces a >weekly summary. It does suggest an idea -- especially in the >context of your comments about people leaving the list. >Perhaps if the mailing list system returned messages above, say, >the fifth in an hour on a given thread or the tenth on a given >list in 24 hours with a careful reminder and request for >confirmation before the message was distributed, that might >help. ... Having been on lists that tried to do that, I can report that it doesn't work. The people who most need to self-moderate are the ones who say, yeah, sure, but this is IMPORTANT. R's, John