Although I am new to Screen-l, I would like to raise a hand for moderation of the list. While my volume of mail is not a concern and it is not a major problem to glance over a redundant post, I can see benefits in reducing mail volume/redundancy through moderation. Two examples: 1) I posted a request for undergrad silent film texts. While most of the responses have been helpful (thanks), there was a post to the list encompassing the revelation that the person could offer no assistance. Did this piece of mail need to reach the list? Would its absence constitute ideological censorship? I don't think so. 2) The recent request for Schoolhouse Rock information is a great example of redundancy (my own post included). Many people posted (altruistically, nostalgically, redundantly) that they remember the show, that there was a video, a play, a cover band, a vinyl album (i.e., mostly anecdotal evidence), but all of this could have been reduced to one or two posts with relevant information (hard facts: distributors, phone numbers, etc). I see the same thing happening with the rare video distribution thread. A FAQ would handle this situation. Is the redundancy issue a big problem? No. Would it make screen-l more appealing if the redundancy was eliminated? I think so. The redundancy issue does not even breach the hate-mongering and tangential path issues (usually , it seems, about peripheral race/gender/ethnicity issues, political correctness and/or Rush Limbaugh) that plague many unmoderated lists. And, when these areas are broached, there is (often more annoyingly) the backlash of people complaining about waste of the elusive-but-ever-so-popular bandwith/let's get on with the subject at hand. I am against censorship, but on a forum such as this, meant to be a free exchange of constructive ideas, I think the idea of a moderator is not censorship, but sanity. I mean, how often to you want to have to read a polemic diatribe such as this when you can be talking about film scholarship? arthur, who should be working on his film genre paper instead of being a blowhard