well, nora, i figure i had approx 150 emails today...discount the other junk i get and other lists i'm on, i figure i had to have had at least 100+ from the creedlist...it's the most active list i'm on, plus i get the digest of a few of them...here is my idea...i need one volunteer from each isp (ie., aol, juno, msn, and the others) to keep track for me of how many emails they get daily from the list...i can then compile this info, compare it, and then forward it to ed if there are significant differences...i'll volunteer to keep track of hotmail, since that's my primary list addy...i can also compare it to digest, since i get that at my other addy...dang...from the one who was the most computer illiterate, when i first joined the list, now i'm helping out the list...i've learned an awful lot...with the help of my friends, of course (winking at scott, and gene, and everyone else...) i was a total neophyte when i joined this list...i don't think i'd had my 'puter more than a month before i came here...anyhow...off i go on another tangent...i must be pmsing!LOL