Perhaps those people who wish to discuss the situation in the Balkans could set up their own mailing list, ICQ space or IRC chat room to quicken the back-and-forth. By looking at the addressee list of each message, it is obvious that hundreds of people are getting every single e-mail message in this exchange despite the fact that they are essentially one-to-one messages. I subscribe to the european-social-policy listserv to keep updated on seminars, summer schools, research opportunities etc. If it is to become a ten-message-per-day barrage of tit-for-tat e-mails, the service has ceased to serve the role for which (I presume) it was established. If people feel the need to send messages to hundreds of addresses at one (via the dreaded "reply to all" feature built into most e-mailers), please do me the courtesy of leaving "european-social-policy-request" off of the list. Michael Jetton Prague, Czech Republic %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%