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>Why not just let us continue being boring and unread? Delete anything that >has "Dear" or "Lacan" in it if you're tired of the boring Americans. In the >meantime, if you think it all so improper, start your own thread, start a >hundred threads, go watch a soccer match or a movie or something, but stop >acting like a bunch of boors, those of you who are really the ones acting >like boors. It's not Debrot or me acting that way. Kent: It is not that simple: I am thoroughly tired of the "why don't you just delete/filter everything" argument. The problem is that if the list is filled full of garbage, self-pleasing jokes, pointlessly offensive banter, and, most importantly, tons and tons and tons of messages that have absolutely nothing to do with the list's topic (British poets)...then people start deciding that rather than just downloading then deleting masses of messages they should just unsubscribe. & this becomes cumulative. The listowners can tell you that quite a few people have unsubscribed or permanently suspended their subscriptions in the last few months. & I can certainly say that as there gets to be fewer & fewer people I want to talk to on the list, there seems to me less & less point in subscribing or posting. This is one reason why I've unsubscribed the list from the actual mail-account I use every day ([log in to unmask]) & only check the archives every day or two. Suggesting that people simply delete what they don't want to read & carry on normally is the same as suggesting they try to carry on a normal conversation after putting in earplugs to block out a loud noise. & what is the _point_ of posting email if all it's going to get is quickly buried under a pile of jokes & silly responses from the same four or five people who don't even seem to care or know anything about British poetry? I take it by saying you've not been posting much lately you mean that you've been posting only about 3 messages a day on average as opposed to 10 or more (as was the case several times in past months). & yes, I'm one of those who wishes Alan Sondheim would knock it off. Incidentally, his solitary recording for the ESP-Disk label back in the 1960s, _T'Other Little Tune_, was recently reissued by ZYX but has fallen out of print--but did manage to collect perhaps the harshest review in all 1506 pages of the Cook/Morton _Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD_. The nicest sentence in the piece runs: "Sondheim's music is the quintessence of a time and place and, like every perfect distillation, is colourless and completely tasteless." --N _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.