Good suggestion, Donna, and one I've been trying to follow myself, though I haven't always been successful. Cindy > Hi all. > > > > I am respectfully requesting that we all please try > to reduce the number of > list messages. I know this topic has come up > repeatedly, and I'm not trying > to stifle discussion, even off-topic discussion, but > I am pleading with you > all to read through all messages and respond with > one message per thread > instead of answering each message as you read it. I > understand that > sometimes a back-and-forth exchange occurs when one > person posts a message > which is shortly answered by someone else, and the > first person responds to > that and so forth, but it is very obvious when > that's happening and when > it's just the case that someone is checking e-mail > and answering each > message as it's read instead of reading through the > collection of 15-20 > messages and then responding to each thread with a > single message. > > > > I love being a BookShare volunteer and I find the > information available on > this list to be invaluable. I also enjoy reading > about what other > volunteers are up to such as going on vacation or > getting married or > starting new jobs. I'm on other lists and I have > moved the unmanageable > ones to another e-mail account so I don't have to > wade through all those > messages every time I want to do a quick check of > personal e-mail, but the > down side is that those lists don't get read very > often either. This is > really not an unmanageable list, and I want to keep > up with it regularly. > Please, please let's try to be respectful of cyber > space and time. > > > > Thank you for considering this request. > > > > Peace and Hope, > > > > Donna > > __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL ? Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.