Dear Listers: I just sent an announcement out to all of the AOL subscribers on all "my" lists from my personal address, rather than via the list. It announced a new list at Rootsweb for AOLers that are so new they have not been in the Rootsweb Review yet. The list grew out of the recent blocking of RW by AOL. Some of the messages bounced for the following reason: ....................... ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <[email protected]> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to air-xn01.mail.aol.com.: >>> RCPT To:<[email protected]> <<< 550 xxxxxx IS NOT ACCEPTING MAIL FROM THIS SENDER 550 <[email protected]>... User unknown ....................... I suspect that some of you have your settings set so tightly that you are missing responses to the queries you send to the various lists. And when we, who write to you, have not been added to your accept list, we get this "nastygram." I substituted xxxxxx for your "screen names". I need all of you to go in and check your settings to ensure that you can receive email directly from *me* from my personal address. There are times that I must communicate with you directly for administrative purposes. If I cannot do so, the only alternative is for me to unsubcribe those I cannot communicate with. Not something I would prefer to do and something that you can easily prevent. Also -- I ask you to consider the fact that your reason for posting to the lists is to hopefully have cousins contact you. Some will choose to contact you directly. They may have oodles of wonderful research to share with you. Perhaps the missing piece to your puzzle. And if they should spend considerable time preparing a response to one of your messages and then get met with a bounce message such as this, they will be at minimum frustrated. Check your settings to ensure they are friendly and compatible with having subscribed to a list. If they are set to only accept mail from folks you put on your accept list.... better get to adding addresses! Thanks for your attention. You may now return to your genealogical research. :) All the best, Lauren Boyd List Admin (various)