Marla Shapiro wrote:

 >don, i thought her point about this potentially pertaining to all of us was
 >well taken (not to mention scientifically valid);

This mailing list has the name no-milk, and all messages posted are
expected to have something to do with avoiding dairy. There are hundreds of
thousands of mailing lists, forums, newsgroups, and chat rooms to discuss
any topic you could need to discuss.

 > if subject headers are
 >used appropriately, what's wrong w/ just using the delete key?

The number one reason people leave mailing lists is message volume. This
holds true no matter what the volume is. Having to hit the delete key more
and more is just going to drive subscribers away.

And a third of the subscribers are in digest mode. The delete key isn't an
option. They get all of the day's messages in one e-mail strung together.
The longer they are to scroll down, the more annoying they get. Likewise,
the list's rule on minimal quoting of the post you are replying to, is much
appreciated by these digest susbcribers.

If you want to switch to digest, send in the command SET NO-MILK DIGEST to
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Don (listowner).