Nan L Starjak wrote: >Lynne, I truly am not being sarcastic when I say I'm happy for you that you can do that. I would if I could. But I have adopted some rather large boards that don't related to my research, simply because I felt they were too large to be un-adminned. > >So, I keep up with the current posts; and my preference, which I cannot *always* accomplish, is to clean the whole thread when a new post brings an old thread to the top. Sometimes I do an advanced search for things like "county" or "and" or "etc." in the surname boxes. > >But -- check every single message on, for example, the Wilson surname board? or Steuben Co., NY? > >Only if I win the lottery and can quit my job. > If that works for you, Nan, that's great. (Not being sarcastic either.) We each do what we can and are willing to do. When I began adminning boards the assumption was that admins would look at the entire board. Now that the guidelines have changed doesn't change my feeling of responsibility to review all the posts, so I'll keep chugging along reviewing new posts every day and working on older posts as time allows. Lynne