Fellow listers -- It's your list concierge here, with apologies. Normally, I wouldn't clutter up the list with messages like this but since we've had two separate requests to unsubscribe sent to the list in the last couple of days, I thought I would try to clear up any confusion so it doesn't happen again. If you want to unsubscribe, *do not* send your request to the list. This will not do anything to unsubscribe you. It will only let all the rest of us know that you want to leave <g>. Please note that you must use a different address for unsubscribe requests than the one which is used for posting messages. If you're not sure of the procedure to use, instructions on how to unsub are in a number of easily accessible places, as follows -- 1) They're on the list website (http://www.island.net/~andreav/index.html) in The Basics section. 2) They're in the official *welcome message* you received when you first joined the list. (Remember that really long message that maybe you deleted right away, possibly without reading through it??....) 3) If you are subscribed in digest mode (ie. receiving several list messages in a group, about once a day), instructions on how to unsubscribe are *always* included at the beginning of your "package" of messages. I'm not sure how that looks in other e-mail programs but in Outlook Express, just double click on the first envelope icon, then scroll down past the list of subject lines. 3) Instructions are in some of the taglines (short messages) which appear at the very bottom of each list post -- scroll down to the very very end and you'll see one. However, they only appear in messages sent in list mode (ie. when each message is received separately, several times a day), but not in digest mode. There are ten different taglines, appearing in random order. One of those taglines is how to unsubscribe. For example, at the end of Karen's message yesterday (9 March), the tagline read -- ==== HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe (if you are in list mode), type and send only the word unsubscribe to: Huguenots-Walloons-Europe-L-request@rootsweb.com And at the end of Cliff's post, also on 9 March, the tagline read -- ==== HUGUENOTS-WALLOONS-EUROPE Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe (if you are in digest mode), type and send only the word unsubscribe to: Huguenots-Walloons-Europe-D-request@rootsweb.com All You Ever Wanted To Know About Unsubscribing........Hope this makes it all clear. Andrea (as list concierge)