Hi John I had the same problem: signed onto the list, then got flooded by too many emails. So I changed my personal settings to the digest mode (see link below). That means that once a day I get *ONE* email which summarizes the help list email traffic of that day. Then I can fly through its index to see what's going on. There's even an option to turn off delivery of mails from the help list temporarily, so your mail account doesn't get flooded while you are on holidays etc.
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