A little history: Howard Ford started this list in April, 1997. By the end of December 1997 there had been 4411 postings. In 1998 there were 5644 postings In 1999 there were 5267 postings I made my first post to this list on 11 April 1999 I came out of the closet and made it public that I was the list administrator on 17 May 2000. In 2000, we had 5452 posts And so far this year, we have had 2267 posts (Woops, this one makes it 2268) The list has received a grand total of 23041 posts since it's creation. I have way too much free time! Family-Origins-Users-Mailing list administrator Alfred Eller