We have seen an increasing number of "junk" messages lately, dealing with "Return Receipts" for email posted to the mailing lists. Having written to several of the servers sending back these "Return Receipts", it has been brought to our attention that the servers are set to do this ONLY if there was such a request in an original email from a subscriber. What this means is, PLEASE do NOT set your email browser to ask for a "Return Receipt"!!!!! Unbeknownst to any of us, this not only gets the sender a receipt for his individual message, but, when that message's target is a mailing list, then gets sent out to several subscribers, the servers of some of those subscribers will automatically send a "Return Receipt" back to the MAILING LIST, not back to the ORIGINAL SENDER. It seems that anytime a subscriber is using server at a college or university, they are ALWAYS set to send a "Return Receipt", and of course it shows up either on the List itself or in the List- owners mailbox. In either case, they are nuisances and serve no useful purpose. I use Eudora and it has a button to click, "RR", at the top in the button bar. If this is checked, you are asking for a "Return Receipt" and will cause unnecessary email traffic to the Lists. I don't know the procedures for checking this in other email browsers, but PLEASE turn it off. Some of you DO have it turned on, because we are getting many replies. Thanks, SgtGeorge