Dave, I suspect others will tell you what I'm telling you: we considered breaking up the list a while back, and concluded we should not. Some reasons: - much more work for list maintainers. What _you_ save by not having to hit the delete key as often will be more than made up for by Eric Hughes having to do a lot more work (and he refuses) - having as many sublists as you suggest would be way too much...we even decided that a simple split into "technical" and "political" was not warranted, at least not back then. (Perhaps this can be reconsidered, thought the extra list maintenance work is still an issue.) - many will post their messages to more than one group, to make sure it gets to the appropriate people - topics bounce around, anyway, so some groups would have no traffic (and folks would send messages like: "Hey, how come it's so quiet on cypherpunks.music?") - people would miss key debates and key developments because they didn't think some group was important. (And if and when they decided something was important, they'd probably then ask others to forward them relevant material.) - the solution is for people to quickly delete message topics they don't want to see. Off-line newsreaders like Eudora (for the Mac) are quite useful. -Tim -- .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@netcom.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-688-5409 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^756839 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available.