Dear Ellen and Jim, There are 237 members who receive this list in digest form. As many of them have said repeatedly, reading messages when the whole previous message is included is tedious, challenging, difficult. You have so much to sort through to try to find the new responses. If there are a lot of old messages, it is tempting just to hit delete and not even try. They would like members of this list only to include a small portion of the message or none at all. It's a matter of common courtesy in my mind to attempt to make it easier for them to read the messages from this list. It's much easier for people not to include the message than it is to read through a mess of messages with previous messages (sometimes several if a person has hit reply and included the whole previous message that included another previous message.) On those days when there are a lot of messages, hitting reply to a digest that included all of the previous digest, automatically generates a new digest. Neither of you get the digest so it is easy for you to read the first part of the message and ignore the rest so you may not fully appreciate what a pain it is. If it is too hard for you to delete the previous message, instead of hitting reply, you could hit the link that accompanies every pbs message that automatically starts a new message and then just add the appropriate subject heading. I understand that occasionally people are in a hurry and will hit reply without deleting the message. But there are some members of our list in spite of my private requests not to do this, that would really make a lot of people very happy if they changed their ways. :-) Mary Sue unsuccessful cat herder, aka pbs list administrator