Hi, I subscribe to a number of newsgroups (a.k.a. bulletin boards, listservs, etc.). I get lots of emails in my in-box. Here are some guidelines that have proved helpful: Don't forget to trim your posts when replying. As the archive has the full post of previous messages, there in NO REASON to include the entire previous message in your reply! Please trim (delete) all the text except that to which you are replying. Also, please use specific subject lines. This allows other researchers to quickly determine whether they can help with your question. For example, "Lewthwaite query" is somewhat helpful. "Researching my g-grandfather Lewthwaite" is not much better. "Researching George W. Lewthwaite, 1847-1916" gives as full a name as I have, and a date range. Would be nice to have place names as well. Let the subject line tell a little story and pique our interest. If you subscribe using a daily digest, please, please edit your reply so the subject line matches the specific post you are replying to. For example, a subject line like "Web4lib Digest, Vol 42, Issue 7" is next to useless. I almost always discard these, unlooked at. (Not picking on Web4lib -- it's a well-run list -- just illustrating that even a list oriented toward professionals can these problems.) Thanks. I love watching the folks on this list help each other out. Bob Stromberg Greenwich, NY