Regarding moderation of this list: While John Chadwick is the OWNER of the list, and has not volunteered to be its moderator (I believe he prefers that the list not be moderated), LISTSERV does, in fact, provide the capability to designate _someone(s)_ to be EDITOR(s) (to which all incoming messages are directed, and who then has the responsibility to either post them to the list, perhaps after some form of editing, or to otherwise dispose of them). So, I ask you: Who is willing to volunteer to moderate MUSEUM-L (if John C. were willing to permit this)? Step up, folks, and let yourselves be heard. Let's say that you'd have to make a committment to be moderator for at least four months, after which an assessment of how successful this approach was can be made. If successful, then it could be continued. If unsuccessful, then the question is: new moderator? back to unmoderated? split off subtopic lists? etc. The moderator's responsibilities include: timely postings, no substantive content editing of material that gets posted, superhuman ability to sort out the signal from the noise messages and dispose of the noise gracefully, and to be comfortable with no more than a possible thank-you from the subscribership. Comments? One suggestion already posted regards "bundling" of responses to a message and sending out the bundle. I think this is unnecessary, and just makes responding to individual's comments more awkward, as well as being an extra burden on the EDITOR, and being a cause of delay in postings. Peter Rauch