I'm about to be away from my home computer for a few days and have only spotty internet access, and before I leave I think it might be useful to post here to let everyone know that, for a number of reasons, there is a size limit on air-l posts. Many people in the past several days have greatly exceeded the limit, and posts larger than 10 KB automatically are held for approval rather than being directly posted to air-l. This means that messages sent in HTML or other formats than plain text may end up languishing for hours, or in some cases, even a day, before I see them and can let posters know what the problem is. Excessively large posts are rejected, and the poster receives the following message: "If your message was rejected for length because you included most or all of an air-l digest in a response, please edit the excerpted material and re-send your post. If it was overly long because it was posted in HTML or MIME, then please try not to post in HTML/MIME - it messes up the digest version of AIR-L and our web archive. This is not a rejection of your posting, only its format, so please re-post in plain text. Instructions for almost all e-mail programs can be found at http://www.expita.com/nomime.html. "Another reason for not using HTML or MIME is that such postings tend to be inordinately large. We don't accept postings larger than 10 KB. If you have information in excess of that limit, a link to a relevant web page is often a better option." So if you want to ensure that your message appears on air-l in a timely fashion, please send it in plain text. Thanks, Holly Kruse List Manager holly@aoir.org holly-kruse@utulsa.edu