Greetings ~ Since you are replying to the digest mode . . . I must tell you and other's on the List, that some people receive the digest mode mail as attachments . . . And as long as they came DIRECTLY from the rootsweb server they are safe to open . . . This somewhat new virus that is making the rounds of lately, works like this. It attaches it's self to all un-opened mail, so when the computor with the virus is turned on and or is downloading it's mail, it automatically replies to any UN-OPENED mail directly to the FROM individual and not to Rootsweb, who was only redirecting the mail to them . . . Say you reply to a message you recived from the List, or you are posting a brand new message to the List, it goes through the rootsweb server, and then is redirected to every one of the subscriber on the List . . . Now here is were the problem starts. KEEP IN MIND rootsweb does not forward viruses ! Rootsweb stripes ALL attachments and ALL HTML text is blocked ! Now say some subscriber on the List recieves your message re-directed from Rootsweb and that person HAS the Bad Trans virus on there computor . . . it will instantaniously reply to your message "before they even open it", directly to YOU with the evil attachment !!!! DO NOT OPEN THIS ATTACHMENT and you will be safe . . . this bad trans virus comes under many difforent subject lines, and most likely will not even be of the same topic your original message to the List was covering . . . So in short if the message is a reply to your posting to the List, and came directly to you from Rootsweb IT IS SAFE ! All the List's that I am personally subscribed to under the digest mode, if I view those through my webmail account, they come as attachments, but if I download them to my email program here locally they don't. I also understand AOL deleivers mail that was in diegest mode, and or the file was too large as attachments . . . Now if the reply to your message came from a fellow List member . . . and the the subject line and or the text body doesn't match your topic AND it has an attachment with it "DO NOT OPEN the attchment" !!!! In a NEW email [do not reply to the one with the attachment] contact both, the List owener and the individual the attachment came from, and let them know you have received this attachment . . . IF the individual truely DOES have the virus, you will be getting another message with an attachment again . . . DO NOT OPEN IT EITHER, and make sure you notify the List owner, so that the individual can be deleted from the List of subscriber's for this List . . . All List owner's, [in the case you don't have their personal email addy] weather it's the Elliott List or any other List can be reached by emailing to LISTNAME-admin@rootsweb.com just subsitute the LISTNAME with what ever the List name is, and rootsweb will redirect your message to the correct owner of the List. I use Trend's PC-cillin 2000 virus program, and currently you can download a free fully functional 30-day evaluation copy -- Go to: http://www.antivirus.com/pc-cillin Also Trend Micro advises you to scan your systems with Trend HouseCall a free virus scanner at http://housecall.antivirus.com They will scan your system FREE for any of the current viruses out there . . . you might want to pass that info on to the poor soul who opened the attachment they got from someone else and then unknownly passed it on to you . . . I am NOT making a sales pitch here for Trend's PC-cillin 2000, and I have no connection to them, other than I use their program . . . I know of several other people who have Norton or one of the other anti-virus programs and they use this housecall web site as a second back up check . . . *********************************** a dweller on the path by the hedge *********************************** your friend in Christ; Ken Hedgpeth ~ Arcadia, CA Admin. of the Stonebraker-L and the Hedgpeth-L America's Family Safe Internet -- http://www.viafamily.com