<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div class="" style=""><span class="" style="">Like Ralph Locke, I find the subject lines very helpful in avoiding threads I am likely to dislike or be uninterested in. </span></div><div class="" style="background-color: transparent"><span class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: transparent"><span class="" style="">I find the names of the authors of posts similarly useful. </span><span style="background-color: transparent" class="">After belonging to this list for some time, I generally know which posters I find interesting and thoughtful and which ones to avoid. I'm sure I am not alone in this</span></div><div class="" style="background-color: transparent"><span class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></span></div><div
class="" style="background-color: transparent">I do not plan to unsubscribe. But at the same time, I am often disappointed by the "level of discourse" and the tenor thereof, and find myself less likely to read posts, and reluctant to participate as anything more than a "lurker." </div><div class="" style="background-color: transparent"><br class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="background-color: transparent"><span class="" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px">David Claman Ph.D.</span><br class="" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px"><span class="" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px">Assistant Professor of Music</span><br class="" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px"><span class="" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px">Lehman College-CUNY</span><br class="" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px"><br></div><div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div></div></body></html>