Ruth , i agree with U. But i also want to note that Ron WAS putting in "obit" in the Subject field. Alas, he and a few others do not always put the word OBIT at the start of the message, which then makes it a lot harder to deal with. Ergo i strongly recommend that ALL contributors of obits put in the "OBIT:" thing right up front in the Subject line of the message. It GREATLY enhances the way in which recipients can follow up on obits... be it deleting them automatically or as a block, or filtering them to a special folder, etc. etc. I for one would be extremely grateful, if we were afforded that useful courtesy! Meanwhile of course i am grateful for any and all GR!!! obits... even if only one in a hundred is of use to me personally, i would hate to miss the lead!!! So thanx again contributors, and thanx in advance for a more orderly and helpful way of posting. Jay Meeuwig CC: GermanRussian-L@rootsweb.com see: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/RUS/GermanRussian.html ----- Original Message ----- From: Ruth Boettcher To: GR-GENEALOGY@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 10:44 AM Subject: [GR-GENEALOGY] Obits. Ron, people on the G-R listserv have so politely asked that those, includiing you, who send obituaries put in the subject line "obit" or "obituary". Politely we have asked. Politely comply, please. Messages without "obit" fills our inboxes with messages that we will not read and cannot send by "mail rules" directly to "delete." I sometimes have 100 email messages to read in one day! That is why so politely we have asked people to comply again and again. At this point, when people do not politely comply, our only recourse is to delete by name. Then it is possible that one day you send mail other that obits to the listserve. With certain names deleted, then we miss other contributions you and other "obit senders" provide. Thanks to all who send obits who politely use this information in the subject line. Thanks for your courtesy. Ruth Boettcher