In answer to several subscribers, who wanted to know how to find out what non-genealogy Lists are available at Rootsweb, here is how it's done: The Lists ARE still active. It's just that they are almost impossible to find now using the options from the Home Page at Rootsweb. Here's how to find non-genealogy Lists: 1) Log on to the Rootsweb Home Page at: http:.//www.rootsweb.com; 2) About half way down the page, you will see "Mailing Lists"; 3) Click "Index (Browse All Lists)"; 4) The next page will give you access to ALL Mailing Lists at Rootsweb; but, don't expect it to be easy to navigate. I, and several other Listowners, have had words with Rootsweb personnel about the difficulty of finding non-genealogy Lists (or Community Lists as Rootsweb likes to call them). 5) Way down the page, you will see a section, "OTHER"; in that section, click on "Internet Help". That will take you to a page where you will be able to click access Lists that deal with Computers, Web-Browsers, Email Programs, Virus Problems and Programs, Graphics Programs, Windows, LINUX, Scanners, IRC, FTP, Hoaxes, etc. In my opinion, this "catchall" section for "Internet Help" is very poorly named. All the above subjects do NOT fall into the category of "Internet Help". 6) Next, if you want to find Computer Genealogy Programs, you have to go back to "Other" and click on "Software". This gets you a page for accessing Genealogy Programs, with a couple of other things thrown in as well. 7) Back at the "Other" category, if you click on "Miscellaneous", you will get a page that is truly a concoction of miscellaneous subjects. Many of the Lists here would well fit into more narrow, well-defined Lists. 8) If you want to find other Lists on such things as "Basket Weaving", "Quilt Sewing", "Barrel Racing", etc., you are a lot smarter than me if you can find them easily and quickly. I manage a List for my daughter called "Barrel Racing". I defy anyone to find it from the instructions I have give above !!!!! 9) To find "Barrel Racing", you have to access "Community" Lists here: http://communities.rootsweb.com/ And then navigate to the various categories, in this case "Sports". I can't find anything at Rootsweb that tells a user, old or new, how to get to the Community List Index. You certainly can't do it from the normal Lists Index !!!!! And, once there, you will find absolutely no correlation between what is found on the Community Index and the normal List Index, although there is a lot of overlapping. In short, someone at Rootsweb had made the decision on how the web pages should look, "where, when, and if" non- genealogy Lists are indexed, and the general layout of the web site. I can tell you right now that, over the past 6 months or so, I have heard from many, many Rootsweb users about the lack of intuitiveness and functionality of clickable links. There isn't even a search capability on any page THAT I HAVE FOUND that allows one to search for non-genealogy Lists, e.g. "Houseplants". This List DOES exist, but I put a challenge to you: try to FIND that List by normal searching from the main Rootsweb home page, or any of its links. And, what is available once you get to "Communities" is NOT a place to click and see a page on this subject; all you see is a list of places you can go to read short descriptions about various Communities and subscribe to the Lists. To sum it all up, there is NO place to click and search Rootsweb for anything other than SURNAMES !!!!! And, if you want to search the Archives for a List such as "Houseplants", you have to know the EXACT name of the List first. I know that the folks at Rootsweb think there are more important things to worry about than the non-genealogy Lists, but it seems they should put in SOME time on making them easily accessible. It is very difficult to search for Lists that are not SURNAME Lists. Very, very poor formatting. SgtGeorge George W. Durman