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Why is it every newbie we get wants to split the list? I understand this stuff might be pretty tedious to wade through on digest, but there's a simple solution: subscribe to the actual list. Then you can delete by topic, which I've been doing to all the e-bay discussions, and a number of others that don't interest me. If I could ask one thing of our gracious list admin, it would be to require that all posts to the list are not in HTML. I'd even go so far as to say no MIME inclusions, even though the mailer I'm using, ELM, handles them fine. E-mail is a plain text format, and every mailer I've ever seen has some way of turning off spewing HTML in mail. I can only imagine how unpleasant having some messages in HTML and some messages with multi-kilobyte MIME inclusions makes life for people reading the digest. I can at least delete them unread once I realise what they are without loosing everything else. The flip side of this is it might be cool if the archive web page had an upload and download section so people could just say "I uploaded the y2k checker to the classiccmp web page" instead of including it. Hmmm. This is starting to sound more and more like a BBS. :) -- Jim Strickland jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Vote Meadocrat! Bill and Opus in 2000 - Who ELSE is there? -----------------------------------------------------------------------