Personally I disagree. I would rather have too much information than too little. I had not checked my email in a week and when I saw how much was there and the info on maps, I just deleted the maps and hessen - just like I do when it is about families that are not mine or I cannot help with. That's the cool thing about email. then I opened one of the others and I was interested and saved those and will go through them and see what pertains, what is just interesting and what my family might be interested in learning. I have posted before on other mailing lists and people have replied directly to me, and I have gotten duplicates. There are also other times where I have been interested in a post someone has asked about and I never see anything else about it. Actually, this list has very few discussions compared to other lists. So in summary - yes there was a mass amount of replies. I for one do not mind it - I just look at the title and delete as appropriate. Sorry for being one more post on this subject. julie --------------------------------- Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out.