Various Listers have reacted to what appeared to be very suspicious e- mails, and some have expressed surprise at the existence of such things on a Rootsweb List. Such events are a natural and inevitable result of being on a mailing list, and we must, as the Scots say, "just thole it". Such incidents only take one subscriber to join the List who with the express purpose of distributing spam, malicious or otherwise, and the only way to stop it is to have such strict conditions for joining the List that its purpose would be defeated. So hitting the delete button is the only remedy, and reporting incidents of the practice only further inflates the volume of traffic on the List, to everyone's disadvantage. Perhaps a direct e-mail to the List-owner would secure the offender's ejection from the List, but that will hardly deter the offender who only needs to rejoin under a different name. Andrew Rodger rodgera@audioio.com