Hi all, I am going away (NY and Ireland) in another week and won't be back until around August 10th. I need someone from the list to babysit for it while I am away. This will not require much work. As a substitute-listowner, you get all the mail on the list, plus all those that subscribe and unsubscribe. Of course, you also get notified when mail bounces, in other words can't be delivered. After three bounces, Rootsweb automatically drops them from the list, so I do nothing about bounced posts. The other part, monitoring, I keep at a minimum. I resent owners that dictate too many rules so don't do that myself. I have four lists and so far, they have been mellow. I don't mind if they get off genealogy once in a while. I don't mind if they have disagreements. I ignore it and eventually it all goes away. I don't mind politics, either. So far, I haven't had any problems. I usually just lurk in the background and watch. That is what I would want you to do, if you baby-sit for me. I hope some one will let me know soon if they can help out. I will be unsubbing so I won't have a load of mail when I get back. Thanks in advance for your help. Pat Connors, Listowner