Steve, you are correct, but all we can do is plant ideas, we can't do people's thinking for them. The one liner messages that quote an intire thread are particularly annoying, but even the one liners themselves don't add much of anything to a thread. Having a notion of what happens when someone presses the send button is helpful. Thinking about the contents of a post before you send it is even more helpful. Gene >Gene, > >A lot of what you say I agree with. However, there is also a lot of >unnecessary list traffic that if people stopped sending it would also >have a significant impact on band width usage.