In a message dated 9/3/99 12:48:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Nkobblk@aol.com writes: << Thank heaven for the digest mode. I can use the delete key to erase messages from "Bruce the braggart" >> Normally I would agree..HOWEVER...you never know what might be "enclosed" in ANY message! Thanks to Bruce's post and the web site for Frank B. Carpenter's painting of Lincoln , I think I've found the biggest clue so far to who my Ira Carpenter is and his connection to Lincoln!! I have been researching for 20 years and my father-in-law for 50 to find one little clue! So listers..remember..even in the most hateful e-mails you delete without reading might be that one piece to the puzzle you've been looking for! (That doesn't mean you have to agree with the rest of message!!) Laurie