I'm sure all of you can figure out a way of setting up your email client so it can work for you. If not, the archives are available online. There's no reason you have to have this mailing list emailed to you in the first place.
That's an interesting attitude you have there. You're going to just do whatever you like and if anybody requests that you modify your behavior, even if many people ask you to, well, it's their problem and not yours?
I use Gmail, inbox-flooding isn't such an issue for me here. However, when I open a thread and begin to read and find there are 30 messages from you and Thomas Dalton, I tend to skip over them. It's not because you guys don't have anything valuable to say but rather because your wisdom is buried in so much text that I don't quite care to fish it out most of the time unless it's a topic I'm passionate about and want to be sure I got everything.
You and Thomas are obviously very intelligent and often have good insights and definitely a lot to bring to conversations but when the signal-to-noise ratio reaches a certain point it is no longer valuable to me to wade through the swamp of e-mails.
Of course, you're certainly not obliged to change your habits just so that I'll read what you write, but I suspect many people feel similarly.
Mark