Dear subscribers of the Lists I manage at RootsWeb: I have put it off as long as I could! Henceforth, all the 11 Lists that I manage at RootsWeb will be "closed". What this means is that, instead of being automatically subscribed to a List by sending an email to RootsWeb, a new user's email will be sent to me, the Listowner, and he/she will not be added as a subscriber until I manually add him/her. Also, NO ONE will be allowed to post to any of the Lists I manage unless he/she is a Subscriber. This will cut out ALL SPAM, all obnoxious users that I have on my reject list, etc. Of course, there will be some who slip through and post trash messages, but after the first one, that person will be manually subscribed and never let back on again, at least using the same email address. If he/she changes email addresses there is nothing I can do until he/she again posts something unsuitable. I'm sorry, but the amount of unsolicited SPAM, both commercial and sex-oriented, has reached the point where I MUST do this! >From now on (as soon as I unsub all guilty parties) there will be NO "sex-ads", no real estate ads, no "multi-level marketing" ads (read that pyramid schemes), nor any other off-topic subject from mass emailers. I hope you all agree with this. If you do NOT, please DO NOT answer here on the List. Send me private email to my personal email address and I WILL answer you. Your List Administrator, SgtGeorge