In a message dated 4/19/2005 3:25:35 AM Central Standard Time, SxyNurs97@aol.com writes: Simplicity is the best, drama sucks This is going to get real fun. I have 2 e-mail addresses, one for family and friends as well as my MS community to contact me so that my mail box does not get over flooded with genealogy list et al info. This is how I have handeled the over flow. I changed over to this when the confusion part of the MS began, unknowing to me at the time it was MS. Simplicity makes things much nicer. It is a sad thing when we miss out on an important message. Getting a seperate e-mail will correct the problem. I had to get a seperate one for my husbands music too (3 seperate mailboxes), there were to many items to look for, so there was an answer to the problem. Seperate pleasure from business and hobbies. On my genealogy mail box I would get up to 500 plus a day, along with many personal e-mails, and several of my personal ones ended up getting deleted, so I made another one for personal, and yes the delete key became my best friend. It has worked out wonderfully, so maybe if others are having the same problem with bouncing, this may be the answer to the problem. This is why I belong to list, in the hopes to maybe find the missing link. My Green brick wall has lasted now 10 years, but am still hopeful that with the kindness of people that maybe they will have the key to unlock the mystery of where in the h... are they. So now can we all kiss and make up? And get back to genealogy so that I might beable to focus for rmore then 10 minutes. =========== I'm really tired of the insults and attacks .On other lists I belong to where there are as much as 200 members( one particular comes to mind) our list manager will post a reminder to us to try to not flood the list with lrg amts all at once or to post the LINKS to large amts of info or include multiple links in 1 or 2 posts,AS A COURTESY for those who are set for "digest mode" so those listers wont be avalanched with tons of scrolling to try to read posts. Also so that it wont cause anyones other email to bounce and not be recieved due to mass mailings flooding and filling up a persons box. I WAS NOT trying to be nasty or as many of you said "rude" or "scrooge". This has been the norm on other lists. And to the one post on here --YES I do know what a mailing list is for--thank you! Which is why as I was led to understand is the whole purpose to streamline things so all of us on multiple lists will be able to recieve and put to use ALL the info recieved on each list. Why do you have to be so nasty? For your information I missed a email from a family member about my cousin who has cancer because her email bounced from my "slammed mailbox". I think its wonderful that she did all this work and posted it to the list but I just feel there could have been a more streamline way to do it. I've not posted to the list for awhile- NOT because as you said "some on here are too lazy to contribute ,they only want to sit back and complain" but because MY Green line-- Lewis Green/Elizabeth Lauderdale has hit a brick wall and I've set it aside for awhile to work on my other lines. Dont worry, I'm sorry everyone was so offended at something I thought was normal list manners. This "rude","Lazy", "complaining" lister will NOT offend anyone again. I too, am always willing to share any of my information feel free to write. Billie C.