Just thought I would post a reminder to all subscribers of Lists I manage about automatic "Signature Lines" at the end of List posts. Here are things NOT allowed in Signature Lines: 1) Endless strings of surnames, permanently attached to and included as part of your signature line are inappropriate and are not to be included in messages sent to Mailing Lists, Message Boards, or anywhere else where you leave posts. 2) Other extraneous information, permanently attached to and included as part of your signature line, such as personal snail mail addresses; home or office phone or fax numbers; URLs associated with your website; your home page URL; your personal or office email address; your ICQ #; your family tree URL; URLs for all your surnames; "cutesy" sayings or quotes and biblical references or quotes, etc in an ad infinitum string, are inappropriate and are not to be included in your messages sent to Mailing Lists, Message Boards, or anywhere where you leave posts. Remember, I'm talking about *endless* strings of the above mentioned items attached to you signature line on a permanent basis, not the occasional piece of information of this nature that you may feel the need to send along with your message to the list; however, SURNAME lists in Signature Lines are NEVER appropriate. Let me explain the last sentence above. When you go to Rootsweb or Ancestry and do a search, let's say for DOE, and a poster has included a Signature Line that contains that surname, you will get a hit for posts by that poster, regardless of where he/she posted the message. It may have been in GEN-MAT (a List for advertising genealogy related materials for sale), VIRUS-DISCUSSION, COMPUTERS, EUDORA- WIN, FTM, etc., etc. When you do a search for a surname, you DON'T want to see all the non-genealogy Lists where posters put surnames in a Signature File at the end of all posts. REMEMBER, Rootsweb's rules are that ANY Signature Line must NOT exceed 4 lines, no matter what's in it. Further, I would suggest you not put your phone numbers, mailing addresses, ICQ Numbers, etc., in Signature Files. Dangerous! Regards, SgtGeorge George W. Durman List Manager