Hello everyone, I hope everyone is having a great summer. First, the bad news...It seems the spammers have found us at rootsweb and some of the lists have been bombarded with spam. For those of you who weren't with us when MAISER was shut down let's go over the meaning of spam...Spam is UNSOLICITED and UNWANTED junk e-mail! Okay, now the not so bad news--to eliminate the possibility of the MAISER incident from happening again the folks at Rootsweb suggested to us listowner to make our list NON postable. In other words if someone is not on the list they can't post to the list. The spammers haven't yet gone to the trouble to subscribe to lists just to be able to post to them. Now, that's no so bad to those of us who are members but yet it does cause problems for those who are not. This means they may not post. I know some people (like myself) who belong to several lists and can't be on all of them that they want to post to. I will try and keep up with the posts that come in from people that can't post them directly but I need you're help too. Please offer to post messages to the list from those people you know. Now, just a reminder to all the folks who are on digest mode. When you click reply the RE: just says something about digest mode version such and such. Please delete that and replace it with what you are replying to so everyone will know what the message is about. Also, while we're on the subject of subject lines let me remind everyone that it is very helpful to those of us who get 100s of e-mails a day if you use the subject line wisely! Remember too, that if you just simply put "research" or "genealogy" in the subject line that some folks (like me) will just delete it. We get too many a day to look through such. Please use a subject line like this: VAUGHAN, John C. 1845 VA>KY>TX Now, I've had some folks say what does all that mean? Okay here's what it means: John C. Vaughan born 1845 in VA moved to KY and then on to TX. This way if someone else has a John Vaughan but he was born in 1850 in NC they know this e-mail doesn't pertain to them. On the other hand if someone else has a John Vaughan who was born in 1844 but they don't know where and he ended up in Texas then they know they may want to take a look at this particular e-mail. Do you see the difference with this approach and "genealogy" or "research"? Even a surname in the subject line doesn't help when there are sometimes 100s of folks on the surname e-mail list looking for the same surname. Everyone have a great weekend! Dana Thomas Dana Gail (Vaughan) Thomas Cass and King counties, TXGenWeb project coordinator: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txcass/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~txking/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~txborden/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~txcastro/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~txgarza/ under construction: Hartley, Oldham, Carson, Parmer, and Stonewall. Daniel, Fortune, Hedrick, Howell, Long, O'Rear, Sanders,Stone, and Story surname e-mail lists owner and moderator also TXCASS list for discussion of Cass county, TX genealogy and history--to subscribe to any of these lists see my homepage for directions. For other names I'm researching see my home page: http://members.aol.com/TreeCrazyD/index.html Looking for any info on: VAUGH(A)N, FORTUNE, STONE, LONG, THOMAS, KEAL(E)Y, HOWELL, HE(A)DRICK "Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least." Goethe "I'm sure genealogy qualifies as things that matter most. Doesn't it?" DGVT <G> ;-)