Okay.... I'm tired, ready to go to bed, but - ignoring good advice to wait until the next day when you have a gripe about something - I'm going to blunder ahead, and regret it in the morning. Maybe <gr>. Those who have dealt with me know that I always send a copy of my reply to both the list and the original sender (unless they request, in their original query, to reply only to the list). I do this for various reasons.....the person may be on digest format, and have to wait a day for the answer from the list. Or the requestor may be having Rootsweb mail problems. Or Rootsweb may be having its own problems (list 5 server). And there's another "very good reason", but I can't think of it right now <gr>. Anyway, I got one of those "if you want to contact me, you'll have to jump through the following hoops...... or else you can't talk to me" replies from the person who originated the above subject. I believe that Rootsweb has some sort of policy on this....but it probably applies only to rejected list mail. In any case, the above person is on "my list" now !!!! Now, it's off to bed. Grumble, grumble, grumble. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts