Whether we like it or not - our servers go down - even if only for a half an hour in any day.......that half an hour can be long enough to have you unsubbed from that list Our servers also set up spam programmes - and lots of times rootsweb emails are considered to be spam. As administrator or a number of rootsweb email lists, I can be innundated with 'returned' emails from servers. These emails are those that are sent to the various lists that I admin - the servers can use the excuse that the address does not exist - the mail box is full - the mail is spam. Most servers have what is known/referred to as a 'bot' - short for robot..........term used to refer to automated system. Yahoo has the least patience of anybody - the Yahoo 'bot' seems to unsubscribe members to lists when one email or two bounces back to Yahoo. Rootsweb - well, most rootsweb list managers/admins have an option to set their list so that once the 'bot' receives three returned emails from any address, then that address is unsubscribed. I am the Administrator of one Yahoo list - and five Rootsweb lists. The rules don't always apply. No matter how many times, or whatever I have done re one email address, I have received return emails for that address every time an email is sent to the rootsweb list or lists that that particular address is/was subscribed to for the last two years. I ahve written to the server, I have written to the address - everything is returned. That is neither here nor there............I am unsubbed from lists on a regular basis - particularly my own Yahoo list - Yahoo unsubscribes me, because emails sent to my account are bouncing................. I've been unsubbed from my rootsweb Galway list, and my rootsweb Clare list on occassion. Not recently - even though some mails addressed to me were returned by my server: See below. The reasons given for these returns varied though the address doesn't exist to the mailbox is full, to you are a spammer/this is a virus. I received these bounced mails because I am admin of these lists - and from my own server who had returned mails to rootsweb - they came back to me as admin. I do exist - my email addy is valid - and I have no limit on my mailbox. The mails did not get to me thru' the list - but they did becasue I am admin of the list - soemone else can figure it out - if they want to!! ;-) My server was just having problems - was down - and servers obviously have standard replies that they send with returned emails sniliaghin@iol.ie IRL-CLARE 07/03/2005 1 sniliaghin@iol.ie IRL-GALWAY 07/03/2005 1 sniliaghin@iol.ie IRL-GALWAY 08/03/2005 1 sniliaghin@iol.ie IRL-CLARE 13/03/2005 2 As and from this month, and maybe even last............maybe since the beginning of this year - I've not quite sorted out the records I do have - but, definitely from March 2005, I am keeping a record of all mails that bounce back to the Admin of any list that I am admin of. Sometimes, as with mine above, you can have one or two on one day. Like me, some of you would be surprised that you are being bounced. I do not un-subscribe people from any list because they have chosen to disagree with me - if, I have managed to put up with Sir Crispin on my Yahoo list, in the way I did, then, I believe that it can be accepted that if any person is unsubscribed from any rootsweb list - it is not of my doing. If you are not receiving the amount of mail that you think you should be from any list - then please check your subscription to that list. That can be done by sending an email to the list request robot at the address to which you originally subscribed Jane