A Reader wrote: > [ Hi all. I've removed the poster's identity because they hadn't > intended this to be a public post, but I am posting their question > for everyone because responses are likely to be of interest to > many people. - Mod ] > > All these Roots Web Lists are very interesting, but very hard to > read. Is there a format to follow? IE start at the bottom and read > upward. That seems to be the only way I can make sense of them. For lists like GM, with lots of traffic, it is almost impossible to keep up. I always read off line from the Methods folder of my e-mail program, to which all GM posts are automatically filtered. Then, I click on the Subject column, so that the messages for a particular subject are grouped together. I delete without reading anything with a subject of FTM, Coats of Arms, etc., with the firm knowledge that if there is an off subject comment in these messages that would enlighten me, my enlightenment has been only temporarily delayed. I can then read, usually in posting sequence so that the topic can be easily followed, the subjects I'm potentially interested in. Occasionally, especially when I've gotten far, far behind, I click on the From name column, just so I can see what Richard's been up to lately <g>. Connie Sheets clsheets1@prodigy.net