As the use of Harp-L increases, perhaps we need to consider having more than 1 email thread to subscribe to. Perhaps:
a) I just want to talk about playing/sounding better - thread b) I just want to talk about people and their styles of music - thread c) I just want to talk about events and harp-l - thread d) I just want to talk and socialize with harp players - thread e) possibly others ... you get the idea ... a few focused threads
We have an ever growing number of contributors and the overhead associated with servicing received harp-l email is cutting deep into the time we all need to devote to playing the instrument we love and advocate on harp-l. Harp-L email is great. The volume is just going to get greater and greater. At some point we will have to consider doing something to organize it more. IMHO