"Hello again Fellow COLLINS Family Researchers & possible Cousins!" Might you be posting your messages using HTML? Or might you be posting your messages with an attachment? If you are, or if not certain, be sure to read this entire message! If you now know that you do, please be so kind as to change your e-mail program to send only standard .TXT messages to the COLLINS Family Mail List as HTML does cause problems for some of our list subscribers, and soon may be causing complications for you as well! PLEASE SEE BELOW! If you might not be familiar with how to do this, may I suggest visiting the following site with your web browser: http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/listowners/html-off.htm to see if something therein might be of help in doing so. Why is this necessary? > > Hi, folks -- Well, it took almost two months longer than expected, but we're right now installing a SmartList hack that blocks file attachments (including VCARDS), HTML messages and enriched text postings. Sorry about the delay: things have been crazy around here. This note is to let you know how it works. When a poster sends something to a mailing list written in HTML, or with a non-plain-text attached file, the list server will send the poster's message back to them, with a note at the bottom explaining the plain-text requirement at RootsWeb. A COPY OF THIS REJECTION MESSAGE WILL BE SENT TO YOU AS WELL! That's because the poster may write back to you to complain or to ask for help, and it can be pretty confusing if they write a reply to a message that you never saw. So when you suddenly start getting messages from YOURLIST-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com, quoting some ungodly HTML mess that you never saw before, don't be alarmed. :-) It just means the list server is rejecting a MIME message that was sent to your list, and that you may get a response from the poster. This change is not currently something the listowner can turn on and off. Attachments will be blocked from every list alike. This might not be to the taste of some listowners, so we'll consider closely whether it would be safe to make it an optional setting. Thanks to Marc Nozell for finding the SmartList patch that was used as the basis for this fix! Regards, Tim Pierce RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative volunteer sysadmin and general hacker > > Thank you for your continued patience, cooperation, and participation in the COLLINS Family Mail List! TTYL Craig List Adm for COLLINS-L and COLLINS-D