Not to nitpick, but I think you may have misunderstood NightStorm's post... I asked (nicely, or at least I thought so) that the personal e-mails be kept private, rather than going to the list, and explained the reasoning behind the request... Jo/RJ saw that as my "acting like I own the list" (which if I did, I'd be charging a monthly subscription fee! ;))... and NightStorm defended me, explaining further the reasoning behind the post I made. We all know that non-Creed related topics happen quite regularly, and that at any given time, there are going to be several active list members who have a problem with it. I do agree with your statement about pressing "reply" rather than "reply all" for messages that are directed to only one person, and wouldn't be of interest to the rest of the list members. However, I think most of us are guilty of posting individual replies to the entire list at least once or twice, especially back when we were still new to the list. And as far as not meeting people off of discussion lists/e-mail/computers in general... well, many of the people on this list know that my fiancé and I met online; in addition, there are several list members with whom we have tentative plans to meet someday. I've met a couple of people from this list already, in fact, and I know there are at least a couple others who have also met other listers. Friendships ARE formed on this list, friendships which might not have occurred were the Creed-content only rule strictly enforced.