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Hi yerself. I acknowledge that I'm jumping in without the benefit of a lurking period, and that what I've seen so far may not be statistically significant, but I'd like to offer a little perspective. I subscribe to a pretty varied assortment of lists (ranging from old Ramblers to new music), and this is by far the highest volume, with each digest in the 3000-4500 line range. This, folks, is a lot of mail. In the case of at least one of the other lists I subscribe to, the list owner borders on tyrannical in keeping the discussion on-topic. We like it this way. Otherwise the S/N just drops off too hard, and the list becomes more burden than useful. Understood. Me, I'm interested in the exchange of technical information, and as I suggested above, it might be argued that the volume and variety of discussion is going to make the list a less-than-satisfying thing for people with specific interests. Might I respectfully suggest that, in the absence of aggressive subject management by the owner, the list would be better broken into four, say: classiccmp-historical classiccmp-technical classiccmp-overblown_prices_collector_scum_die_die_die classiccmp-more_about_television_licensing_really That's admirably democratic of you, but impossible in practice. It's really just a job for one individual's discretion, and I have no reason to not trust yours. Jonathan