Hi Indigo: I understand your point. However, to ask for a uniform e-mail posting style is - in my eyes - asking people to check their personality at the door. E-mail is one medium of communication, used by correspondents to exchange information and express themselves. Some people are fine with top-posting. Some prefer allowing readers (or listeners) to regain a sense of context. Some (such as I) prefer responding in 'bits & pieces' - inserting bits of response after pieces of the original message - so as to keep ideas fresh and spontaneous. Sometimes, as in this message, the respondent (me) doesn't even include the original message. To ask for uniformity might accomplish a personal goal, easing your reading and/or listening, but it may be viewed by some as an unreasonable request to remain detached and impersonal. Really, I don't mean to sound like a curmudgeon. But none of the styles of response I described above interfere with communication of information and ideas which ought to be the focus of this list serve. Formatting should remain a personal choice. Imagine if Frost, Rilke and e. e. cumming had to write in some uniform format? Sincerely, Jay Heuman Visitor & Volunteer Services Coordinator Joslyn Art Museum 2200 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE, 68102 342-3300 (telephone) 342-2376 (fax) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Fine art is that in which the hand, the head and the heart go together." John Ruskin, 1819-1900 The Two Paths. Lecture ii. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).