Tom, Ok, you are right, if everybody would post a "dunno", I wouldn't be in the list for too long, either :-). As a mildly intelligent person I wouldn't seriously request this; I think my point was more that from my point of view, the discussion on the topic was missing. And yes, I was referring to the "transfer limit alarm" posting. To everybody else: I implemented a little "sorry" in my previous posting, knowing quite well that I was a bit polemic. Most of the replys show however that my mail was not formulated too badly. There's one good thing that came along with it, too: Jim had the idea of a counter-like custom alert made with ISA SDK. It's so simple when you think of it, but I'm not too aware of the possibilites ISA gives me in extensibility. Even though Jim said to have no idea, he gave me a valuable clue as where to start looking further (retrieveing performance data for the external nic etc..) In any way this would have been possible without me "blasting the list", as Stephen pointed out. I know that a list is not comparable to real-life communication, where you would find it very offending when you are being ignored. But I do expect a community to react in some way, especially if someone asks twice and points out some sort of importance, as in my case. I am a list member for some months now, and I have made different experiences with my postings. I consider my "case" closed, because for one I see more clearly what is possible in a list, and secondly have a point to start from to solve my issue. Thanks, Jim! Please do not feel offended by my pevious posting, I just raised my head and said what I thought. Mark