Is setting up a filter a suitable option for you?
Richard

Brian Kraut wrote:

> The list is mostly PIC related a lot of the time, but drifts off now and then.
> I personally would get pretty bored reading just dry PIC messages.
>
> Now, the religion and politics rants can get annoying, but I welcome other
> technical topics from other engineers.
>
> Randy Brumbaugh wrote:
>
> > I just discovered and joined this list and am amazed at the terribly low
> > signal-to-noise ratio.  Could we keep the discussion to PIC topics please?
> > I had over 50 messages in my inbox this morning, and a prolific PIC
> > discussion would be very welcome.  But most were discussing magnetic
> > fields, perpetual motion machines, urban legends, house wiring practice US
> > vs. UK -- so now I delete most of the messages without reading.
> >
> > The folks on USEnet figured this out a while ago -- if it isn't relevant,
> > don't read it, and PLEASE don't respond.  And if you MUST respond (perhaps
> > your ego tells you that your insight is especially keen and unique, which
> > it is not), do it in personal email, not to the list.
> >
> > So please:
> > 1.  Only send to the list things related to PIC processors, support tools
> > and projects.  Ignore anything not related.
> >
> > 2.  Try to be concise -- remember people have to read it, and most of us
> > are busy.  Put something descriptive on the subject line. If you are
> > sending a follow-up in a thread, include the original subject so people can
> > easily see if it is a thread of interest.
> >
> > 3.  Thanks for all those who have sent relevant and useful PIC info -- it
> > makes the list worth reading.