Hello everyone: This message was sent to me as a list owner but I thought ya'll might be interested too. So if you use a email program that writes in html, you will need to turn it off before sending a message to the Bearden mailing list. If you don't know how, this page gives directions on how to do it. http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/listowners/html-off.htm Tammie Chada List Owner In a message dated 98-06-23 15:15:13 EDT, you write: > >Hi, folks -- > > > >Well, it took almost two months longer than expected, but we're > >right now installing a SmartList hack that blocks file attachments > >(including VCARDS), HTML messages and enriched text postings. > >Sorry about the delay: things have been crazy around here. > > > >This note is to let you know how it works. When a poster sends > >something to a mailing list written in HTML, or with a > >non-plain-text attached file, the list server will send the > >poster's message back to them, with a note at the bottom > >explaining the plain-text requirement at RootsWeb. A COPY OF THIS > >REJECTION MESSAGE WILL BE SENT TO YOU AS WELL! That's because the > >poster may write back to you to complain or to ask for help, and > >it can be pretty confusing if they write a reply to a message that > >you never saw. > > > >So when you suddenly start getting messages from > >YOURLIST-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com, quoting some ungodly HTML mess > >that you never saw before, don't be alarmed. :-) It just means > >the list server is rejecting a MIME message that was sent to your > >list, and that you may get a response from the poster. > > > >This change is not currently something the listowner can turn on > >and off. Attachments will be blocked from every list alike. This > >might not be to the taste of some listowners, so we'll consider > >closely whether it would be safe to make it an optional setting. > > > >Thanks to Marc Nozell for finding the SmartList patch that was > >used as the basis for this fix! > > > >Regards, > >Tim Pierce > >RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative > >volunteer sysadmin and general hacker > > -- Thanks!! Tammie Chada tchada@flash.net List Owner Stop by the Logan County Genealogy Society, Inc. web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~oklcgs/lcgsmain.htm List owner for Bearden, Brumfield and Parks Mailing Lists. Co-host for the Logan County, Oklahoma Mailing List. Click here to see the MANY surnames I am researching http://www.rootsweb.com/~oklcgs/sur.htm PROUD ROOTSWEB SPONSOR!!