What's needed is for listservs to have a different sort of Reply command,

You know, a halfway solutiojn wouldn't be that hard to write. Small script which reads incoming listserv messages. Counts the number of lines that begin with ">". Counts the number of lines that don't. If the former is, say, at least double the latter, then refuse the message with an automated response mailed back to the sender. Nope, doesn't take care of those whose e-mail programs don't insert quote marks. Which surely needs fancier stuff. cheers Bram --