Dear fellow listowners and researchers, I too am very tired of seeing this thread and would like to see it stopped as quickly as possible. The only way to do so is for each listowner of a closed list to sound off and let the recipients of this post know that their list is closed and to please remove it from the huge cc: list. In this post, I have removed from the list pacheste-l and padelawa-l, my own tow lists, which are closeed to outside posts. I have also stripped out the Quaker-Roots list and The Roots-L as I know these are also not open lists. If each of you will do the same and remove your own closed lists from your posts in the process, we should be able to dwindle this mess down. For that matter, you could ask to have folks remove your lists from the cc even if you're not closed. Either way, the irresponsibility of the original poster has gone on long enough. BRing this to a close! REMOVE FROM CC: [email protected] [email protected] Mary Harris, listowner