I have always taken great pride in the people on this list in how we all work together, sharing information about our shared heritage. We have around 200 subscribers to the Farris-L and anytime you have that number of people, there are going to be disagreements in how things operate. While some people want every note posted to be strictly genealogical, others enjoy the comraderie of feeling like we are all family. It is my intent that our list remain genealogical, but I also feel it is nice to have things relaxed and not have people afraid to post for fear their note will annoy another person. A few gentle suggestions for making the list a more productive one: (1) When replying to a previous note, please clip a SMALL portion of the note that you are replying to, so that others can follow the thread. If you simply type "Where were your folks from?" in a note to the list, most of us will not recall which note you are referring to. (2) Please be sure to put an appropriate subject for your note. This is especially important for those of you who subscribe to the digest form. When you reply to a note, it's not particularly helpful for the subject of your note to be: "Re: FARRIS-D Digest V99 #80" (just an example). (3) Subscribing to the digest form is recommended if you do not wish to receive a large number of individual notes each day. It is simple to scroll down through the digest picking out the notes that you are most interested in. (4) If there are notes that are of little interest to you, or that you perceive to be trivial in nature, simply use the delete button and move on. (5) If you have complaints about any of the posts, please do not voice your complaints publicly to the entire list; rather, direct them to me and let me handle the situation privately. I hope everyone will cooperate and work together to keep this list as productive as it has been in the past. If anyone has comments regarding my post, please direct them to me personally. Thank you for taking the time to read this note.......now......back to our Farris research! Wanda Rabb (researching Rabb (NC/SC), Penix (NC), Bradshaw (VA>NC), (Gantt (NC), Nix, Robertson, Wilson, Conner, Harris (Rutherford Co.,NC), Laws(Yancey, Rutherford Co., NC), Edwards,Kelly (Yancey Co.,NC), Causby, Patton, Morrison, Sparks(Burke/McDowell Co., NC) Paxton (Union Co., NC >Lancaster, SC), Purviance (NC), Farris & Morris (York Co., SC) Lovelace, Hamrick, Green and McSwain (Cleveland Co., NC), Granger, Ledford, Black(Cleveland or Rutherford Co., NC), Towery (Cleveland or Lincoln Co., NC) Listmanager for CAUSBY-L, FARRIS-L, LAWS-L, NIX-L, PAXTON-L, PURVIANCE-L, RABB-L Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Cottage/1882/