Susan, I don't think there's a nice way of putting this, so I'll dive in at the deep end! You don't send messages like this to mailing lists! I assume that like 99.99% of people with email facilities that you don't like receiving spam ? So: 1. It's more than likely a hoax. Did you check to find out if it was before you sent it or do you just believe what's written in messages without question? 2. If it's a hoax (or even if it isn't?), then it's spam and you sent it to all of us. 3. You included many many email addresses in the message, thus creating an absolute goldmine for the spammers who use "robots" to search the archives for email addresses. 4. It's a chain letter! Regardless of the subject, bin it! Please, please think long and hard before you send messages such as this one - it's just using up bandwith on the internet, and whatever you do, don't send them to Mailing Lists ! Best wishes, Colin Hinson In the village of Blunham in Bedfordshire U.K. Webmaster for the Genuki Yorkshire pages: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ Old and Rare Yorkshire Books on searchable CDroms: http://cdroms.blunham.com/