John--you are absolutely right! Messages meant to go to a specific individual should be sent to this individual only. But alas--even moderators are human and make mistakes (as I did last night when I operated under the assumption that I was responding to a message addressed to me only and when I forgot to double-check the address field before hitting the "send" button). My apology for the inconvenience that this may have caused, and a reminder to others not to make the same mistake. Axel Schmetzke Moderator of AXSLIB-L -----Original Message----- From: John Nissen [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 5:56 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Design and Implementation of Web-Enabled Teaching Tools (ten 50% discount coupons) Hi moderator and everybody, Why do we have messages up to 50Kbyte just to say a few words, often directed at one individual person on the list? Please do not automatically quote the whole of the message to which you are answering. I would like the moderator to stop such practice, if it continues, by returning messages to the sender. Thanks, John -- Access the word, access the world! -- Try our WordAloud software!! John Nissen, Cloudworld Ltd., Chiswick, London Tel: +44 (0) 845 458 3944 (local rate in the UK) Fax: +44 (0) 20 8742 8715 Web: http://www.cloudworld.co.uk