" Most of us, probably all of us, already have means of filtering e-mails in numerous ways. I would prefer to have AoIR neither sanction nor censor expression." my primary method of filtering emails has always been by subject..... but subject headings seem to have gone the way of those in academia...no more plain labelling that nicely coincides with those keyword searches..but instead...a rather catchy title that has little or nothing to do with content my secondary method works better.......i check who has posted the message, and based on prior readings from them i'm sometimes guilty of just deleting them...unless i'm in the mood to be amused, annoyed or entertained and then...I just might read them and now a thought comes to me...what if everyone on the aoir list has read my previous postings and is now deleting me unread?......see how easy it is to add to the noise!! denise carter