Cynthia Blue wrote:
Has the subject matter on the list moved away from Astronomy too much for your liking? Not at all.
Do you not read most of the emails from the list anymore? I at least glance at all of them.
Would you prefer to snuff out the political/evolutionary/etc content, and just read about Astronomy? It's unfortunate but these days it's hard to get deep into certain areas of research without bumping into politics.
So if we have to touch on politics as part of a discussion about science I'm ok with that. However, if someone started a strictly political discussion with no direct connection to science I would be against that. As for concerns about too many posts, that, as others have said, is what the delete key is for. And some may have noticed that those threads that get few posts die rather quickly. Short answer to your question: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Patrick