Re: multiple vsnet-messages First of all, please keep the "discussion threads" (including this) within vsnet-chat. A number of multiple vsnet-messages has come from redirection of messages to more suitable lists by the administrator group. (e.g. vsnet-obs to vsnet-chat upon discussions, vsnet-xxx to vsnet-alert upon important urgent messages). Redundancies have partly come from the temporary shutdown of the 'vsnet' list, by the intruding commercial mails, during which period we had to use vsnet-chat also for the original 'vsnet'. Duplicated postings (and maybe some of subscription policies) to 'vsnet' and vsnet-chat come from this practice. Fled from spams, we had now better use vsnet-chat exclusively for discussion threads and vsnet for distributing materials, as formerly intended. Redundancies will be at least in some part avoided. Use vsnet-alert timely alerts (of a certain variable, etc.) and not vsnet-chat. The second large proportion of redundancies come from messages deserving further discussions. This kind of messages appear in all lists, and we put a copy to vsnet-chat when we feel necessary. We know 'vsnet-chat' is regarded as rather special among vsnet lists, and is selectively subscribed by a broader astronomy community. Mulitple postings including vsnet-chat are therefore sometimes unavoidable selections. We will keep the minimum redundancies between vsnet-alert and vsnet-obs, since the readers of the latter are mostly included by the former; I have done this for the sake of the continuity of information within a specific list. Regards, Taichi Kato