Hopefully, you have clearly enumerated the purpose/mission of the list, and have followed up both on and/or off list, as appropriate, for mis-postings. As part of a strategy to reduce traffic, you might try the following ploy: with sufficient notice to the subscribers, update the list defintion headers so that list replies are defaulted to the sender of the original message, and NOT back to the list i.e., Reply-To= Sender,Respect Also some subscribers might be satisfied if they used the DIGEST or INDEX distribution options (assuming that your have notebook archives or, for DIGEST, allowed THAT possibility via another list keyword definition). /Pete