Dear John: Edith Ray and I have the same problem. Eventhough I highlight ONLY the text beginning with "CRAIG Mailing List", the ENTIRE message is deleted. I even tried putting the cursor on the text at the end and backspacing or putting the cursor at the beginning and hitting the delete key going forward, but AOL throws up the "Are You Sure You Want to Delete This Message?" window every time. So my choice is all or nothing. This could be why so many of us are unintentionally sending all of this footer text along with our replies. Maybe someone on the List who has AOL has an answer. Thanks, Barbara

The trick is that if you are replying, i.e., you are creating a NEW MESSAGE, you can make whatever deletions you want. Rather than make the deletions in the message you have received, make the deletions in the REPLY message you are sending. Lin Worked for me on THIS reply...

My server is Tampabay.rr.com and it also deletes the whole message. Luckily I tried it on a message I was going to delete anyway. Janet ----- Original Message ----- From: <HEMPS3@aol.com> To: <CRAIG-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 4:13 PM Subject: [CRAIG-L] Re: "FOOTERS" Solution Deletes Entire Message > Dear John: Edith Ray and I have the same problem. Eventhough I highlight > ONLY the text beginning with "CRAIG Mailing List", the ENTIRE message is > deleted. I even tried putting the cursor on the text at the end and > backspacing or putting the cursor at the beginning and hitting the delete key > going forward, but AOL throws up the "Are You Sure You Want to Delete This > Message?" window every time. So my choice is all or nothing. This could be > why so many of us are unintentionally sending all of this footer text along > with our replies. Maybe someone on the List who has AOL has an answer. > Thanks, Barbara > > > > ==== CRAIG Mailing List ==== > All material sent through Craig-L > is copyright 2000 by its original author > permission must be obtained from the original author > for the reuse of any text, "whole or in part". > CRAIG Genealogy WEB Page > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/9791 > > ============================== > The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Tens of millions of individuals... and counting. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > >

HEMPS3@aol.com wrote: > > Dear John: Edith Ray and I have the same problem. Eventhough I highlight > ONLY the text beginning with "CRAIG Mailing List", the ENTIRE message is > deleted. I even tried putting the cursor on the text at the end and > backspacing or putting the cursor at the beginning and hitting the delete key > going forward, but AOL throws up the "Are You Sure You Want to Delete This > Message?" window every time. So my choice is all or nothing. This could be > why so many of us are unintentionally sending all of this footer text along > with our replies. Maybe someone on the List who has AOL has an answer. > Thanks, Barbara > Dear list, I use netscape and have discovered the same thing happens if I highlight the footers and hit delete. I delete the entire message. However as you can see by the above message I was able to delete just the footer after I hit reply and the message was in my mail form. Maybe this can help someone else. Judy