On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 02:19:30 +0000 (UTC), Vas575@aol.com wrote: >Having said all of this, I also don't think such advertisers should be >'flamed' on list. > >Just my humble opinion. >Vicky > Have you actually seen anybody flamed here? I've been in and out of soc. genealogy.italian almost since it's inception, and honestly do not remember seeing anybody* really* flamed. On rare occasions I've seen one or more complain about advertising which complaining is, I believe, a God given right;-) It's also sad but true that the good old days of list administrators seem to have come and gone (else the question of advertising would have been settled long ago). With the advent of very large numbers reading these messages through RootWeb and other gateways and thinking they're on a mailing list, usenet as we knew it is a thing of the past and that's a shame. A few years ago any spammer would have been inundated with complaints. Benny Non-Flamable Reb