Occasionally it is necessary for me to let everyone on the List know how to post, etc.; for the "old-timers" please be patient, we have new people coming to the List all the time and it's important to let them know how to most effectively post their queries. 1. All messages for the List are to be send to JONES-L@rootsweb.com. Sending your queries to jones-admin or jones-l-request will not get your message to the List; it will bounce to me and I will return it to you with a message to re-post to the List. 2. An effective query will contain: "Who, What, When & Where" // we are all researching Jones's and a message that says "searching for John Jones" isn't going to give enough information for anyone to help you. So, please give a name, general dates and locations. 3. Ditto for the subject line. Let's all please remember to change the subject line to something pertinent to your query with enough info so that someone who has no interest in your person, time or place will know before opening it. For those who don't know how to change the subject, after you click on Reply, just highlight the previous subject and either hit delete or backspace and then write your own subject line. For Everyone: Some subject lines are red-flags to ISP spamming filters: Help is one of them - please try to avoid using the word 'help' in your subject line. Also the word "free". Blank subject lines are equally frustrating and out of fear of viruses some people may delete messages with no subject or an ambiguous subject out-of-hand. 4. Quoting the previous message: Please delete all but what minimum is needed for clarification or to let someone know you are responding to their query from the previous messsge. Our Digest members will receive huge emails when all the the previous posting is left intact. And it takes up unncessary space on Rootsweb servers. Again, highlight the unnecessary text and hit delete or backspace. 5. Capitalization: In the world of mail-lists and the Net, typing in all caps is equivalent to SHOUTING at someone. Try not to do that unless there is an occasional word you'd really like to stress. If someone is having trouble with eye-sight, that's understandable; but most of us should not type in the all caps mode. 6. I think we have a wonderful list membership with polite, helpful people who are a great bunch of folks. But, for the record: please no flaming, spam, virus discussions, commercial messages, etc. And no non-Jones genealogy topic are permitted on the list. I thank all of you for being on the List ... Kathi Jones-Hudson JONES Listowner __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com