Gotta say that I've yet to see anything that lends merit to the necessity of this change. I can see the argument that some people are unhappy with the amount of email they receive from the list, but should that impinge upon the people who don't have a problem with it... I am pretty sure that email management is not a community problem, but a personal problem. I think we need to know why this change was a good or legitimate choice for the organization. It was a premature change, made without consultation to the membership, with apparently no strong justification. A working group is fine, but why should the working group operate under different settings from air-l currently, but i bet... it will have the correct/normal reply settings on its lists if it chooses to use one. It just seems to me that... there isn't anything keeping this setting from being normal. There seems to be a good amount of support for it being normal. Perhaps there is a huge mass of people communicating with the exec that this is a good thing, but I've not seen that, and it seems like that should be made in the public forum to me. That is sort of what AoIR centers on, this public forum, we used to have other forums, but this is sort of the last big one. Jeremy Hunsinger Political Science Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow Center for Information Policy Research () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://wiki.tmttlt.com http://www.tmttlt.com You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. --Mark Twain