I have lost 7 subscribers in the last day and a half, can anyone guess why? I think I can, They are sick and tired of this bickering. I am going to loose the next person who sends anything to the list about this subject. He or she. will not be able to re-subscribe for at least a week. It has been more than two days ago that I first asked you nicely to find another subject, so I don't think this is too harsh. Family-Origins-Users-Mailing list administrator Alfred Eller

Alfred, I've been on this list for a couple of months (been using FO since release 2) and, as yet, I haven't seen any posting of guidelines or rules of etiquette. Do we have such a document? My personal opinion is that any subject which relates to how FO meets the needs of the user are fair game for this list BUT we have to agree to treat discussions in a rational, mature manner regardless of our personal views. In this last big discussion, I ventured a proposal for how FO might be configured to satisfy the needs of family researchers. The list treated my proposal in the sense I made it - no shouting, flaming, etc, - except for one personal flamemail. My point is that if we can be objective in these discussions and leave personal bias out of it, our favorite software can benefit. Thanks for listening. Jim Winfrey