Marilyn, One use for the classification is to filter what you see on the board. For instance, you could limit your view of the board to JUST the obituaries if you wanted to. -- Mary On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 Kaesemein@aol.com wrote: > Hello Folks, > > After spending hours cleaning up my board (which I'm still in the process of > doing) with over > 10,000 posts -- yep, you read that right--TEN THOUSAND! ----- I posted a > message asking > Message Board posters to please take the time to read the Message Board > Rules link > at the bottom of the page. > > I've received a reply from a regular poster and contributor who helps with > many requests for > birth, marriage and death records. He says he doesn't really see what the > point is for the > Classification feature and I'm not sure I see the point either....because > one can read the post > and KNOW what the information is about and thus, the Classification. > > Is there something in the Search capabilities that I'm not aware of? I'd > appreciate some > advice on what to tell this poster. > > Thanks! > Marilyn