That is a great idea and what makes it hard is not seeing someone's adress in the look up request. So if people decide to do as you mentioned, then let's make sure to include a email address so it makes it easier on the person helping! ;) Sincerely, Tonya Cowling Bales SC On Sat, 10 Jun 2000 16:28:30 -0500 Margit Bakke <mbakke@eot.com> writes: > Hello All, > Whenever I offer to do lookups "to see if someone is in a book", I > always > insist that they ask offlist, or I do not do the lookup. > What information we exchange, is then between us! > Margit > > IrisLillie@aol.com wrote: > > > You know the thought just crossed my mind.... (I know it is rare) > > > > That who ever complained and sited the "violation" of law, was in > fact just > > plain irritated about all the letters that were crossing in the > open > > newsforum, about something that obviously didn't interest them... > > > > Perhaps, the lesson to be learned here is that on inquirers that > really > > deserve a private response, maybe we ought to take the time and > effort to > > make our personal questions personal..... > > > > I really think if Sally's gracious offer was the only POSTED > letter that the > > scoundrel had seen, he wouldn't have thought to complain.... > > > > Again, just a thought for the future... > > > > Iris > > > > ==== GenWisconsin Mailing List ==== > > > ==== GenWisconsin Mailing List ==== > Mailing list moderator: Brenda K. Wolfgram Moore > email: kingsley@aol.com > ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.