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I agree in part with what you say Pete, however, some lists/newsgroups are very active and do have quite a good following. I think the problems occur when people send one message to all the lists that they are on in the hope that they might get some feedback to whatever questions they are asking, be it related or not. I too find it very frustrating but its just one of those things. The more list that are started, the more lists we join, the more we are likely to have the Cross Posting Problem. The " Apology for Cross Posting " message which does appear from time to time is a good indicator that the sender is aware of what they are doing., but this still does not solve the problem. One other thing which I also find annoying is that people tend to reply to the sender and not the list, so some good feedback on various topics is lost to the majority of the group. Well I hope that this might stark off a debate or are we just the only ones left on the list? :-) Mary ---------- From: Pete MacKichan To: computer-assisted-learning Subject: Re: Unsubscriptions Date: 29 November 1999 22:47 Hi, I must admit I too have considered cancelling my subscription to this list. The reason for this is the number of messages that are cross posted to (and from) other lists. For some reason this seems to be a particular problem with mailbase lists - and as I subscribe to a number of different mailbase lists I often end up getting four or five versions of the same message. It would seem to me that there is a problem here. If the messages are really of interest to the members of four or five different mailbase lists then there would seem to be a good argument for merging those lists. If the messages are not relevant to the lists they are posted to, it would seem to be a good idea for the different mailbase lists to discourage inappropriate cross posting. Best wishes, Pete MacKichan [log in to unmask] The TEFL GREECE Website and Discussion list: http://freeweb.digiweb.com/education/TeflGR/index.html %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%