It seems clear that, when USENET was discussed recently, the consensus was that we did not want BEE-L to become a USENET group. What was not discussed was the increase in traffic in this mailing list recently. Look at the increase in size of the archive files for this year so far:- * Archives for list BEE-L (Discussion of Bee Biology) * rec * filename filetype GET PUT -fm lrecl nrecs * -------- -------- --- --- --- ----- ----- BEE-L LOG9301 PRV OWN V 80 1308 BEE-L LOG9302 PRV OWN V 80 2530 BEE-L LOG9303 PRV OWN V 80 3495 BEE-L LOG9304 PRV OWN V 81 6825 BEE-L LOG9305 PRV OWN V 92 2366 LOG9304 (April's archives) is so large that the list server will not even let me have a copy. Its size exceeds my daily quota of 256Kb. LOG9305 is not so big but the month is not over yet! It won't be long before the traffic on this list becomes unmanageable. As it is, I will have to unsubscribe if I am going to be out of the office for more than about a week otherwise my mailbox will be liable to overflow. Perhaps things will quieten down again but I think something must be changed. What do other people think? -- Malcolm Roe Phone : +44 442 230000 ext 4104 Crosfield Electronics Ltd Fax : +44 442 232301 Hemel Hempstead, Herts. HP2 7RH, UK E-mail : [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------------------------