Darrell, In response to the message at the bottom, thank you for pointing out something that will help make list communication more concise. It hadn't occurred to me to cut and paste a portion of the message that I was responding to for including to show what I was responding to. Perhaps those using Digest Mode have to do it that way. With most of my email I nearly always use "reply" to reply to received mail and I have the settings adjusted to show the message that I responding to so that the people who are receiving them don't have to strain themselves trying to figure out what I am responding to (unlike what I have to do so often when people do not indicate what they are responding to. I can see that often, just the mention of the subject is sufficient so that a "reply to" message is not necessary. For instance the single line message to the list "It is still wet and dreary" could mention the subject and read, for the benefit of all, "It is still wet and dreary there, in Coos Bay." Darrell, I prefer to see the latest part of the message at the top, were it appears immediately upon opening the message, making it immediately apparent what the message is about and not requiring scrolling to the bottom to find the message, instead of seeing again the message that we have already seen before when we open the message and then have to scroll through all the hatch marks until we find where the new message begins. Is there a reason that makes it better to have the reply at the bottom, following the prior message? I considered your advise about including no more than is important to the subject in the reply and decided that all of your message is important. Thanks. Muriah ________ "Darrell A. Martin" wrote: > At 07:28 PM 6/14/01 -0700, muriah wrote: > >What are the Names of your Gardners on the southern Oregon coast? > >What dates? > >Where? > >Muriah > > > >PS...... > >Isn't it true that the information that we provide in these messages > >remains available in the archives to be researched for years? > >I am currently contacting people who wrote rootsweb messages a year or two > >ago regarding the westward journey of our ancestors. > >It seems, the more details of data that we provide in these messages > >(especially names and dates and places) the better. > > Hi, everybody: > > Yes, it is true that all messages are archived "forever" on the RootsWeb > servers. So it is an excellent idea, for that reason as well as many > others, to include as much relevant information as possible. For the good > of the list, though, we should all try to avoid copying more than is > required to identify the topic, when we *reply* to a message. But in that > case too, one should try not to be TOO cryptic. "Sally, yes" wouldn't help > the rest of us, who may be interested, very much <grin>! > > The URLs for the two different archives are > > For interactive search (word or phrase) > http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > For threaded search (follow a conversation) > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ > > In case you are interested, e-mail addresses in the archives are encrypted > or recreated on the fly (the two archives use different methods, and I > don't recall which is which) to avoid spammers being able to harvest > subscribers for their own "evil" purposes. This is true both of addresses > in the headers and those typed in the body of a message. However, the > addresses are visible normally when viewed through a browser. > > Hope this helps, > > Darrell > > Admin for VTGEN, VTCALEDO, VTLAMOIL, VTORANGE, VTWINDSO, MANORFOL, F.ELCH, > F.ORBUSH, G.ARDNER, H.ARTWELL, H.ULBERT, L.AMSON, L.OWER, N.ELSON, > R.OUSSEAU, R.USSEAU -- [email protected] > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog