There are (at least) two very good guides to surviving this
somewhat-high-volume vanagon list, both for reading and for posting.
It's good to re-read them from time to time:

Survival on the Mail Lists:
http://www.vanagonauts.com/Mailing-List-Survival169.htm

Community Etiquette
http://www.vanagon.com/community/etiquette.htm

Will in Alaska.

On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 17:03 -0600, Richard A Jones wrote:
> > I suggest you try to "train" the listees to be brief and refrain from the
> > silly nonsensical comments. I know YOU try, but it aint a workin for me...
>
> If everyone had to read in digest mode for a week every so often,
> the world would be a better place.  Read in digest mode and
> 1) you'll see all the "I agree" messages with the original and
>     so you won't do that.

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