There is an alternative, which is to subscribe to the Digest <http://www.freebmd.org.uk/lists.html#Admins>. This means that you get approximately a day's worth of messages to FreeBMD Admins in one email ... which is entitled FREEBMD-ADMINS... Of course, you don't get to see the emails immediately ... but that may not be a hardship :-) Barrie On 19:59, david mayall wrote: > This is something that comes up from time to time. > > Yes, we could (potentially) add a "list tag" such as [FREEBMD] to every post > that comes via the list, but this means that the actual subjects of messages > become harder to read. > > Messages that come via the list contain a whole variety of headers that > identify them as being from the list, and which you can use to filter the > messages from FreeBMD into a separate folder that will prove them not to be > spam. > > > On 18 July 2011 15:05, Janet Harding <jmharding@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > > >> When I received these e-mails I thought they were junk mail as there was no >> indication they were from FreeBMD - can you make this clear please! >> >> Janet Harding >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: freebmd-admins-bounces@rootsweb.com >> [mailto:freebmd-admins-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Kate Rimmer >> Sent: 18 July 2011 08:38 >> To: freebmd-admins@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: Old dead nun.... >> >> Her death is also listed under the names Barbara Symons and Sister M. B. >> Symons. >> >> Kate Rimmer. >> >> FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins >> FreeBMD http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> FREEBMD-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins >> FreeBMD http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> FREEBMD-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > > --Certified Virus Free by 4SecureMail.com ICSA-Certified Scanner--

There is a downside to Barrie's solution - a significant number of people do not change the subject line when they reply, making following a discussion very difficult as several threads have identical subject lines. On a similar point, a number of people do not trim extraneous material from the reply, so you get multiple copies of the instructions on how to unsubscribe etc, and often the rest of the Digest as well, so again there is difficulty in deciding what the message is actually replying to. I have seen periodic requests for excess text to be cut from replies, yet in some cases there have been replies to these messages - with the multiple headers and footers, showing that the message hasn't really been read or maybe understood... At least with the single messages you have some chance of the body text relating to the subject line!! Russell -----Original Message----- From: freebmd-admins-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:freebmd-admins-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Barrie Sent: 19 July 2011 07:42 To: freebmd-admins@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: Re: Old dead nun.... There is an alternative, which is to subscribe to the Digest <http://www.freebmd.org.uk/lists.html#Admins>. This means that you get approximately a day's worth of messages to FreeBMD Admins in one email ... which is entitled FREEBMD-ADMINS... Of course, you don't get to see the emails immediately ... but that may not be a hardship :-) Barrie

Thank you Russell, Yours came through with [FreeBMD]  in the subject line, so I read it and did not think it was SPAM. Hope the other emails come through with this identifying mark too. Regards Katherine