Cousins, *Please File This Message!* I have been getting more bounces than usual. Before you take off for your vacation, research trip or family reunion, if you don't have a large mailbox at your ISP, please remember to unsubscribe to your lists, or at least your *large* lists. When your mailbox gets full, ALL of your listowners start to get bounces. And if you subscribe to the list rather than the digest, we get a bounce for every message posted! That is, we listowners get the bounce messages until you get unsubscribed by the listbot! When you come home, and find your mailbox full, just cheerfully send a subscribe message to all of your favorite lists. If you weren't 'bounced off,' you will get a message saying that you are already subscribed. You will not be subscribed twice (at least on Rootsweb lists). Please don't ever take being unsubscribed *personally.* It sometimes even happens to listowners, from their own lists! When an ISP has problems, they are beyond any of our human control. Remember, send all those unsub (and re-sub) requests to the **** -request **** address, not the list address! And remember, you can always consult the archives to catch up on what you've missed. Even if you don't have web access, the archives are accessible to you by email. The two ways to access the Rootsweb list archives on the web: Threaded archives -- <http://archiver.rootsweb.com/archives/> Isearch (Karen's) archives: <http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl> Here's a great hint for making the best use of the Rootsweb list archives, courtesy of Carol Hammet: John Robertson has a great website that explains how to use phrases, wild cards, boolean operators, for most effective searching of List Archives which is at: <http://www.shelby.net/jr/robertsn/rwsearch.htm> Anyway, above all, enjoy yourself this summer! Listmama Valorie