All of us read the *long* lists of postings. I read upwards of 100 per day sometimes (like snow storms in the east). It is courteous to pare down the post to which you are responding to just enough material so we get the sense of the message. If we missed it, its always available in its entirety in the archives. If you choose not to do that, please start your message on the first line and "push" the copied text down. That makes it so much easier to find *your* message rather than the previous one. I happen to be on a *fixed price* server, but these reposting of long messages *kills* the folks on AOL. Thanks for helping. I'm one of the few who don't use the digest because I kept finding necessary info in the midst of interesting-but nonessential to my needs- material. Lactnetters are the greatest! Dick Copeland Texas