Hello, I wanted to let you know that I haven't had time to learn more about the inner-workings of Message Boards. But, it's on my to-do-list. So, I won't make a decision on whether to request one to accompany this List for a few more weeks. But, something was said a few weeks ago that I wanted to comment on. When I first went on-line ~8 years ago, and started subscribing to the Lists, I had to learn about the inner-workings of the Lists. One thing I had to learn was what happened when a message from the appropriate Message Board was "gatewayed" to the List. I found out later that I missed a lot of messages because I had misunderstood something. I tried to find an example of what I'm talking about this morning, but didn't succeed. What I had misunderstood was that, when I saw a message from a Message Board appearing on a Mailing List, and the only thing it said was "Thank you," I thought that was the message. It took me a little while to find out that was -not- the message; that I had to go to the Message Board to find the actual message. While I was going through all the e-mails early yesterday morning, the majority being List Digests, I was reminded that there are 2 ways that a message from a Board goes to the List. One is where the entire Message arrives on the List. The other is where just the "link" to the Message Board arrives, and you have to go to it to read the message. (It only says, Thank you.) That is one of the things which I need to learn about. Why there are 2 ways for a Board message to be sent to a List. Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) List Administrator P.S. We will be heading to a "wake" this afternoon. It's a sad story about a young wife and mother who was killed in a car accident. It's also a complicated story. But, I wanted to mention that it is an example of a person living in one place, but being - someplace else - and dying unexpectedly. The person's family was totally not prepared for handling "last arrangements" and had to go find a place for the burial - not in the town where the person lived. I just read an obituary in "The Lowell Sun" (MA/US) last week about a man in his 40's who had lived in many states in the US after he graduated from college, and had also lived in England for a while. He had only married about 7 years ago and had a young son, and they had moved to the Lowell area. They decided to go spend some time with his wife's family in Maine. They wanted to do some sailing. While there, he died unexpectedly. I don't recall where he was laid to rest, but there would have been several choices.