> I've begged and pleaded with my subscribers to stop overquoting; > whenever I do, things improve for about a week, and then everyone goes > back to quoting everything. Yeah, well, tell me about it: noticed phenomenon for years. I know how to stop it but can't as haven't total freedom here. Just play the nasty listowner from time to time which helps, for a while, but also makes the timorous reluctant to post (hey, I ain't seriously bit anyone yet, despite my bluffs). Clean operation of the list, the goal of the listowner, is a difficult concept to convey as they *will* take it personally. Douglas