Recently I read that American Online had begun to offer increased Internet connectivity to its customers and evidence for that is showing up pretty heavily on my list (Market-L). For the past two weeks we have had 2 to 3 subscribe or unsubscribe requests per day from aol.com going to the list address. As an aside, aol.com is now the most heavily subscribed site on Market-L by far. There is a short term and long term thread here. For the short term, (1) is anybody else experiencing this, and (2) does anybody know what AOL's listserv help or documentation file looks like? I just have the feeling it does not explain the difference between the list and the server very well. If I can verify that I would like to send a nice polite note requesting better help files to the management signed by me and other owners (reply directly to me if you just want to include your name and list). The long term thread is this, but I don't know whether I have a question here or whether I just want someone to sympathise. Market-L has only 700 or so subscribers but there seems to be a terrific amount of noise. As one subscriber put it to me, the list is "out of control." I don't expect things to remain all buttoned down and academic but it is starting to resemble alt.tonya-harding.whack.whack.whack or something. I see people posting their resumes, there are numerous unsubscribe commands (despite bi-weekly FAQ postings), person-to-person communications using the list.... It looks to me like moderating it, with all the extra labor and arbitrary control that that step implies, is inevitable. Has anybody started out with an unmoderated list and felt forced to begin moderating? Or should I just let the bits fall where they may? ________________________________________________________ Charlie Hofacker [log in to unmask]