Rett Thorpe <[log in to unmask]> wrote: " ... posts that are of a personal nature .... Often people will post a question to the list, and because they dont want to take up "List Time" they ask to be responded to privately...." Well, I think the best way to handle this is for the one requesting private responses to provide to the list a summary of the private responses they receive. Tom Barrett did this quite nicely last week regarding "Suburban Beekeeping". Aaron Morris - thinking many hands make light work (and better BEE-L)!