I thought to also let everyone know about another facet of mailing lists. If you inbox gets full and your server begins rejecting mail the mail robot tracks the number of times your mail is rejected. After 5 rejects you are dropped from the list. This prevents old addresses and incorrect address from building up on the list. AOL, Usa.net, and several of the other national mail providers limit the size of the inboxes of their subscribers. When you are gone on vaction or on a particularly heavy mailing traffic period, your inbox could easily fill up and you'll be dropped from you mailing lists because of full mail boxes. There is no vacation hold available on rootsweb mailing lists, so if you are going to be gone for awhile and belong to serveral lists, don't be surprised if you get home and find you no longer belong to your lists. Barbara please excuse me for using your reject as the example. The original message was received at Fri, 8 Oct 1999 11:30:27 -0700 (PDT) from c-20.rootsweb.com [209.164.27.20] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- bpardun@webtv.net (expanded from: <bpardun@webtv.net>) dyj@webtv.net (expanded from: <dyj@webtv.net>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to storefull-173.iap.bryant.webtv.net.: >>> DATA <<< 554-The incoming mailbox for user dyj is full. <<< 554 This person is not able to receive more mail at the present time. 554 dyj@webtv.net... Service unavailable This message shows that Barbara's inbox was full and couldn't receive any more mail. So as a precaution keep you inboxes as empty as possible. I use my inbox as a holding pen for messages that I want to keep but not file. I have read them, but they are still in my inbox taking up space. I don't have a limit on addy's inbox so that is not a problem for me, but my usa.net address does so I have to keep that one fairly empty. Hope this helped explain things to all. Deborah Byrd