I have had to remove 3 people from the list today as their mail is bouncing. One reason for mail bouncing is spam filters. If you use a spam filter check your settings as some spam filters treat all rootsweb mail/mailing list mail as spam, perhaps because you have set it this way, perhaps not. Whatever, your mail will bounce and you will no longer be able to recieve or send mail to this list. Another reason is similar to the above except that it is ISPs who bounce the mail. Probably because they think it is spam. At the moment an AOL address is bouncing - not sure if this is a problem with AOL or because a spam filter has been fitted. I think the latter but am not sure. Sometimes of course an ISP has a more general problem and cannot accept mail from anywhere. The third reason for bouncing mail is the use of a work address.....if you go away or your work is closed for a few days, please unsub as mail boxes fill very quickly and it does not take long for messages sent to some work addresses to bounce. I don't know about the rest of the world, but this weekend is a holiday weekend in England and Wales and many people are away. This can also happen if you use your home PC for the list and forget to unsub when you go away for a fortnight, but the problem seems more common with work addresses, probably because there is either more email traffic or a smaller personal mail box allowance. In all three cases the bouncing address has been removed from the list. In every case I have been unable to contact the subscriber, so doubtless I will receive angry/upset/puzzled messages from these subscribers wondering why they are no longer subscribed to this list!! I know they won't see this message, but if you should suddenly find yourself removed from the list, the reason is probably one of the above! Contact me and I will send you a copy of the bounce notification so that you can see what the problem was. Happy Hunting Helen in Weymouth where the sun has shone and we have at last been able to carry on with the outside house painting that we started at Easter! Helen Jones, Weymouth, Dorset http://www.melcombe.freeserve.co.uk List Admin Rootsweb Eng Dorset & Scammell Lists, and British Genealogy Eng-Dorset, Surnames & Forenames list