>> Quite likely the lowest I've ever seen or heard of used. I'm on >> one list where the limit is 300, and it has been freed a few times, though >> not often. > GACK! That's incredible. What's the topic and how do most members > handle the load? I sometimes had to free WORDS-L when its daily threshold was at 200. I don't think I've had to since I changed it to 300 a year or so ago. Right now it's averaging something pretty low -- under 100 messages a day. I consider anything under 100 per day a low-traffic list. People handle list loads in different ways. How much list mail I read depends to some extent on my schedule at the time. On days like today when I can find a few minutes to read e-mail during the middle of the day, my reading load will be lower during my usual e-mail time at night. If things get so busy that I don't have as much time for e-mail at night (and before 7 a.m. -- my other prime reading time), I delete lots of list mail after the first screen. It helps that I have a voice-data modem at home that allows me to read mail at 19,200 baud. But I somehow managed it before that with my 2400-baud modem -- and before that at 1200. I guess what it boils down to is that we tend to find time to do the things that are really important to us. I read e-mail during times when many people are watching tv or sleeping. --Natalie ([log in to unmask])