I am going to unsubscribe for a while but thought if you saw these two messages together which I received back to back you might understand the confusion on the list. If only the list owner is allowed to post off topic messages, perhaps that should be listed in the welcoming letter. Personally I felt that physical characteristics were more pertinent to "the study of ancestry" than computer viruses. I became interested in genealogy when in high school I was told that I walked like my great grandmother. That comment sparked a life long interest in who my ancestors were and how they lived. Lela In a message dated 6/11/99 11:48:04 PM Central Daylight Time, jerri@cherokee.net writes: > ENOUGH ON THIS SUBJECT! > > Medical, genetics and discussions of other fairy tales should be done on > their proper mail lists-- and this isn't one of them! > > In case some of you have forgotten, this is a g-e-n-e-a-l-o-g-i-c-a-l mail > list. > In a message dated 6/12/99 12:03:36 AM Central Daylight Time, jerri@cherokee.net writes: > This is an official announcement from the U.S. Department of Energy > concerning the new virus. It's rather long, but I feel that the > information is critical. > >