Monica, I agree with you. I make sure to post to both groups in order to prevent someone from buying or scanning the book I already have. I know it is a lot of mail, but this is the only way to make sure everybody gets the information. Ann, sorry for all the double postings, but I just don't want people to waste money and/or time on something that is already taken care of. Also, there are questions that one person in the other group might answer that others on your list cannot. It can be confusing at times. Sorry for all the messages. Maithe ----- Original Message ----- From: Monica Willyard To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 3:38 PM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: A plea for some restraint! Hi, Ann. I agree with you that there is a lot of crossposting going on. I can see how it would be frustrating to have so much email in your in box. From my point of view, I think there is some confusion about which list information should be posted to, especially since some people are only on one list. I find it difficult to decide where a specific email should go. This wasn't as much of an issue before the Bookshare Discuss list was designated for wish list posting. Now it's sort of confusing because while I'm supposed to post wishes to that list, I know that I'll probably get more of a response from posting to the volunteers list. To add to my confusion, we have several submitters who are only on the Bookshare Discuss list. When I put together the list of books I've ordered to scan, I thought I should crosspost it because it would be a shame for someone else to spend money on a book that's already in the works. Monica Willyard Ann Parsons wrote: Hi all, I suppose I'm being awful, maybe I am, but folks, most of you, or at least a good many of the usual posters on here are writing to both lists, the general list and the volunteers list. this is all well and good, guys, but I woke up this morning to eighty-three messages in my inbox! Many of these posts were duplicate posts because they had been CC'ed to both lists.