Okay, folks: I surrender. Frankly, as your Listowner, I'm both fed up and disgusted by all you'all's arrogance, selfishness and bickering. So, I'm now closing down this 'out-of-control' ANDERSONVILLE-L mailing list...And I'm sorry to have to do so... I personally paid to create this ANDERSONVILLE mailing list last year (1998). Why? My GGG Uncle, 2nd Lt. Thomas B. Reeves, Co. C, 10th Indiana Cavalry, was imprisoned there between DEC 1864 and MAR 1865 when Lt. REEVES was transported from Andersonville to Camp Fisk, MS and ultimately loaded aboard the Sultana where he met his death on 27 APR 1865. ---------------------- Yea, our beloved ANDERSONVILLE mailing list was recently abused by someone 'spouting' his own opinion. BTW, while I agree with that "abuser's" opinion, I've also eliminated him from ANDERSONVILLE-L. Our mailing list was *NEVER* created so that *anyone* could 'spout' those kind of off-topic posts... If that had been the sum-total of my recent trials------as your ANDERSONVILLE Listowner-----I could've easily dealt with it... But it wasn't. Instead, it was only "Strike #1." As a Rootsweb.com Listowner------owner now of only three mailing lists (SULTANA-L, REEVES-L, and ANDERSONVILLE-L)-----I'm getting absolutely *FED UP* with the degree to which new subscribers are managing to subscribe to the various Mailing Lists I've paid to create and yet aren't figuring out how to actually *POST* a message to that list! Folks, my own E-mail box now is clogged daily by E-mail messages from folks who obviously have ignored the automated instructions they each (you too!) received after first subscribing. Judging from the dozens of messages I receive weekly, I'm left to believe that many of you must think that I have nothing better to do w/ my time but to work for you personally answering all your questions. The worst is when I'm personally insulted for not helping them...I think that literally thousands of folks think that I-----and the ANDERSONVILLE mailing list I paid to create-----exist *SOLELY* to help them. I'm now routinely getting several messages every week that say (in essence): "My GG Uncle/grandfather/whatever was in such in such Regiment and was captured at some damned placed, AL/ GA" (or whatever your favorite villinous C.S.A. state was). But wait! It gets better....they then WANT ME TO SEND TO THEM WHATEVER I HAVE ON THEIR ANCESTOR." Obviously, many of them are newbie AOL users. Need I say more? But what's alarming is the number of subscribers from "regular ol' ISP's" now saying the kind of things... Then, (as if *THAT* wasn't bad enough), when the Listowner trys to simply forward up onto the List a bunch of posts from folks like described above, his mailbox *AGAIN* is beseiged by folks who apparently can't even see that ALL HE WAS TRYING TO DO IS FORWARD A FEW MESSAGES FROM OTHERS. Folks, I'm sorry. This mailing list is now so congested by idiots who not only can't properly address posts to the list, they insult and ridicule the very person who pays to maintain the List that that creator now wishes to disavoy himself from the List. NO MORE, folks! I surrender!!!!!! I'm not the absolute IDIOT that you all think I am. Screw it. I already know what I need to know about Andersonville and my ancestors there...You'all now can fight the last battle... I won't participate. Frankly, I'm tired of being insulted and harassed. It's now you'all's List. I'm unsubsubscribing myself. 'Bye. Greg Reeves Former ANDERSONVILLE-L Listowner greg@rapidnet.com