Over the past few weeks this list has been receiving lots of emails from members who do not snip the messages before posting. In other words they send messages with lots of previous messages still attached…. sometimes as many as 6!. Apart from the fact that is a Rootsweb guideline to remove them as they take up too much space on their system, is that some listers are on dial up and cannot afford to keep downloading the same messages over and over again. It is basic etiquette to delete them apart from the particular one to which you are responding. If replying to a long message with just a comment, I ask that you delete most it, just leaving a portion of it. It is worth considering that Rootsweb have to archive these repeated messages and it must take up a huge space on their system – they provide this service free, so please let’s help them back in return. Some of the extra long messages get stuck in the Rootsweb system as they are far too large, as are those from listers who insist on using Incredimail and I do not release these to the list. I realise that one can get very excited about receiving an answer and forget to snip, but most times they are from the same people time and time again. So please consider your fellow listers and Rootsweb before clicking Send. There is no need to respond to this message although if you feel a need to, then please do so to me privately. regards Lesley Uebel mailto:ckennedy@bigpond.net.au