With complete respect for your opinion I would say "careful Bill, you might be speaking only for yourself" :) I wouldn't change a single way that this list and people communicate and function! Hope everyone has a nice Holiday Weekend With warmest regards from San Diego, "Ed" MI > Jefferson Co., IL > San Diego, CA Ed & Betty Greene 3538 Elsinore Place San Diego, CA 92117-4509 Phone & Fax 619-274-3720 edgreene@san.rr.com =========================================================================== Paternal Surnames: Anderson (SC>IL), Burdette (MD), Getty (IRE), Green (MD>IL), Lively (SC>IL), Parker (SC), Porter (SC), Teter (VA>IL), Maternal Surnames: Beer (PA>OH), Crow (PA>OH), Deffenbaugh (PA>OH), Derr (PA), Maley (PA), Shank (PA>OH>MI>MN), =========================================================================== FTM Homepage: http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/g/r/e/D-E-Greene/index.html Member & FTM group leader:Computer Gen Soc.of San Diego: www.cgssd.org ===================================================================== -----Original Message----- From: William T. Green <greenwt@hevanet.com> To: GREEN-L@rootsweb.com <GREEN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, September 04, 1998 8:09 PM Subject: [GREEN-L] Common Courtesy >Since most of us subscribers want to see pertinent information related to >our forebears on this service, why don't those of you who want to answer >someone's specific question go to their specific email address and stop >"spamming" the rest of us with your chat-room messages? > >Thanks, > >Bill > >