Mary Russell suggested that I outline what is involved in "owning" a maillist. HARKEY-L is one of the smaller lists, and takes virtually no effort to keep up. The listowner has some nifty utilities on a web page provided by RootsWeb, where I can add people who don't do that directly, or resolve any cases of abandoned e-mail addresses (which result in a "bounced" mesage to me each time there is a posting), or (if there were a disruptive personality out there somewhere) to delete addresses from the subscribers list. Other duties are promoting the list (seeking additional participants), if the owner is seized with that level of enthusiasm, and answering the odd simple question. I have had one bad address to delete over the past 5 months. I haven't yet met a troublesome subscriber yet. The HARKEY list has required less an hour of time each month to "maintain", primarily reading e-mails from RootsWeb on enhancements thay are working on, like the archiving plan. Please understand that I am giving up HARKEY-L so I can open another list, not because it is much work. I will stay subscribed if the list continues. Hope that is helpful, Craig