Gil, I agree with your logic in general but have one question...why change everyone's practices to protect us from some theoretical harm that has not occurred in the history of the organization? Yes emails are misdirected to the whole list...I've done it too on occasion, but how many of those emails arrive during the course of a day/week/month/year? My sense is not all that many. On some level it seems odd to me that an organization for people who should be at least minimally technically savvy is taking a somewhat extreme paternalistic stance to protect us from ourselves. ____________________ Lois Ann Scheidt Doctoral Student - School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington IN USA Webpage: http://www.loisscheidt.com CV: http://www.loisscheidt.com/cv.html Blog: http://www.professional-lurker.com