Paul after Mark: ================================================================== Every one subscribed to this list has can configure his/her profile not to receive "OT:" threads. The members of the list have been very good in labeling "OT:" subject matter as such. I don't think there is a need for a moratorium. In addition, I think its very unlikely that anyone in this list will be able to persuade anyone else to change their vote. Regards Paul Christidis > ........... , I suggest > a voluntary moratorium on all "politically related" messages. ================================================================ Above leads me to make a rare pop-up and suggest a variant: I expect many like me consider the scientific, technical, and etc. "OT:" posts to be a valuable part of the list (if we ever find time to read it these days). But even without beginning to have time to think of gathering statistics, off the top I would guess that in the last weeks there have been some days where the political "OT:" approached if not exceeded 90 percent of total traffic. While I hate to ask the long-suffering and patient keeper of the list to do any more work, given the recent state of the list I propose a separate OT category: "POT:"; for "Political OT", of course. Then people who want to continue that struggle can do so at whatever smoking level of high they desire; while others can decline just "POT:" while still receiving "OT:". Given the number of other categories that were created long ago, and gauging the percentage of POT traffic recently, a separate category just for POT seems eminently justified; and seems like it would solve all facets of the problem.... providing of course that posters are careful to always preface POT posts with "POT:". For your consideration... Ken Sletten * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *