In response to seeing my private mail made public I made inquiries. Did you know...or did I just fall off a turnip truck! "Hi, Al- I understand your concern but mail sent by a subscriber to a mailing list is not "private" in the sense you mean. The best solution is to ALWAYS look at the addresses showing in the TO and CC boxes before clicking on SEND. It is true that some of our lists are set up to reply to the sender only while otheres are set up to reply to the LIST as the default, it is still the sender's responsibility to check to see who they are sending a message to. Joan RootsWeb" -- Off list virus memos, free limited mature-amateur-tech help is always available at this address...how to, what to, where to, when to...etc. A Graduate of the School of: "TRY IT, All YOU CAN DO IS SUCCEED OR GO CRAZY!" Another satisfied customer: "Wow, Al, you sure do a job of work when you get going! I'm frankly a bit stunned by the amount of data and advice you assembled for me." The World Virus Tracking Centre can be accessed at: http://wtc.trendmicro.com/wtc/ To read about additional viruses and Trojans, please visit: http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/ For a FREE UPDATE of your current version of Copernic, please follow the instructions posted on this Web site: http://www.copernic.com/promo/mailing/ For a reasonably cheap alternative to the GRO, and one leg up on the straight IGI: use KindredKonnections. It goes deeper and wider! http://www.kindredkonnections.com/ For an excellent source of all your software needs...shareware, freeware and betaware can be found at: http://www.winfiles.com/ For the latest in UPPER genealogy visit Captain Billy at the following: [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wjupper/surnames.html]. Bill's site is public, whereas my site is private and confined to direct family relatives only. Entrance is by password and codes. FORTITER ET STRENUE "God grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change... Courage to change the things I can and... the Wisdom to know the difference." The Book of Islam tells us: first with the example, then with the word and then with the hand... LEAD BY EXAMPLE, BY THE WORD AND THEN BY YOUR DEEDS! Be a goat [leader], not a sheep [follower]. Eph.: 2: 8-9: "For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast."