Folks, The above lists are gatewayed to the corresponding Rootsweb Message Boards. Although Rootsweb has SPAM-filters in place for the mailing lists, the Message Boards are open and subject to SPAM. I used to monitor the Message Boards gateway postings prior to posting to the lists but stopped some time ago as there was no abuse. Until now...yesterday a posting made it to the MOFFAT list. I apologize for it and from now one will be once again monitoring gateway postings before forwarding them to to the lists (and reporting and removing the offending messages from the Message Boards). Thanks. -- Yvonne Bowers Listmom NORCAL, SOCAL, CA-CORNISH BRANSON, OLIVER, LORENTZ/LORANCE/LOWRANCE, MOFFAT/TT/ETT/ITT