Laurie, Your mail message to me seems to indicate that you're a little unsure of how this mailing list works. I've included your mail in a mailing list issue (what you're reading right now) and put this response in so that everyone is aware how the ferret-list works. Everybody is supposed to mail their messages to me (via "ferret-list" userid), whether or not they are in response to something they've seen in the ferret-list. I collect groups of these messages together, edit them down slightly to a consistent format, and put them into one "issue" of the mailing list. The issue is mailed to *everyone* registered in the mailing list. Thus, *everyone* on the mailing list sees *everything* sent to ferret-list. And, if they wish to respond to an item, they send their message to ferret-list, I encorporate it into the next issue, and *everyone* sees the response. Therefore, everything you get will be mailed by *me* - even if someone else originated it. (PS: *everything* I get via ferret-list goes into the next issue. I'm not censoring anything. Even flames...) Now one of the things I do, which may be an annoyance to some people, is stick my own editorial comments directly into the articles that other people have sent to the ferret-list. Whereas, everyone else has to respond by sending me a new message which I include in the next issue I send out. Your questions went out in issues 17 and 20. I threw some editorial comments in. Nobody else responded. The reasons they didn't could be any one of the following: - They thought I had answered it as best as they could. - They didn't have a response - the mailer screwed up and they didn't get the issue. - the mailer screwed up and I never saw their response - they're on vacation. - "That idiot know-it-all Chris guy has jumped in first again - I'll keep my trap shut" (half smiley here...) I fear that a predominent reason could actually be the last one listed and I'm unintentionally stifling discussion from other people. I'd much rather that this be a forum for discussions between everyone on he mailing list, rather than between me and everyone else. In all seriousness, I ask everybody: Do you want me to editorialize inline? What I could do instead is delay my editorializing one issue. Depending on what I get before the next issue, *I* could shut up. I really mean this. What this hopefully would tend to do is get more people to jump into discussions, and turn it more of a general free-for-all. What I could even to is simply rearrange the aliases, so that everything comeing to "ferret-list" gets automatically reposted - I wouldn't have a chance to comment - and the turn-around would be quicker - even if I'm on vacation things would bounce back out really quick. [Though, the anon-list members would have to rely on my manual intervention to ensure that their names didn't get broadcast] I'll send out all discussion I get into the mailing list. Thanks, [Posted in FML 0027]