Some notes on what Pete said:
 
> 4) have a DIGEST distribution for those who want it
 
    You may have to set this up explicitly if you don't have archives.
 
> 9) encourage responders to the list to edit original postings
>    judiciously (or simply use a significant SUBJECT: RE: original subj)
 
      It won't do any good, but get down on your knees and *beg* that
      your people not  include, every time, the entire text of what
      they are replying to when using their handy "auto-reply" button.
      At least edit out the enormous sigs.  We've got five and a
      half years of archives for one list; had I the time and energy
      to do it I could probably cut the disk space use for it in half
      simply by getting rid of the totally pointless quotes.
 
> 12) encourage survey requests to have responses sent directly
>     to the surveyor who then should summarize the results and
>     make them available to the subscribership (perhaps via
>     list distribution, file stored in the list's archives, FTP,
>     WEB, etc)
 
      For us, these frquently come from "non-subscribers" so they
      come to me for approval.  I often add a Reply-to: field to
      them to be sure people don't inadvertently reply to the list.
       (Generally, we want people to reply to the list; they *are*
        intended as professional field discussion lists after all.)
 
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