Just my two cents, but ...

Tue Jul 30 17:24:05 EDT 1996

Once a simple question is answered shouldn't we just let the thread die.  
This isn't intended as any kind of a flame and I left my asbetos suit at home so please
extinguish all flammables.

A dozen or more messages on how to do a simple graphic manipulation is a bit excessive. 
Sharing knowledge and all that is what these lists are about, but clogging mailboxes with
repetitive posts of instructions reduces the overall quality of the list.