Koebel, Alen writes:

> Sine our IT department discourages subscribing to mailing lists because 
> of the traffic (if everyone did it...), I drop in and out of the list, 
> subscribing only when I have a specific question (I check the archives 
> first). Will I be a "newbie" every time I resubscribe? 

Erm?  Does your IT department not allow you to surf the Web?  You'll
generate more bandwidth downloading a single web page with graphics
than several days worth of traffic even on a moderately high volume
mailing list.

"On the web, a picture had better be worth at least a thousand words
because it will take at least that long to download." (attribution
unknown)

-p.
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