It appears that the list is working correctly again and new mail is getting through in a timely manner. However, some of the other list owners are reporting that mail posted during the server being down may be lost in cyber space. If you posted something and never saw it come through. Go ahead and post it again tomorrow. That should give us more than a full day for the backlogs they talk about below to be cleared up. Another thing to do, is check our archives located at http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=MO-STLOUIS-METRO Anything that made it through should be in the archives. If you ever wonder if there is a problem on the list check http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ The yellow boxes tell you if something is going on. We are on list2 and we know that about half of the email lists were out for about a week. This is what was posted there just a few moments ago: Mail Lists: 2003-10-17 The mailing list server (LISTS2) that has been off-line for maintenance has now been turned back on, and e-mail is being processed. Mail will be processed from the queued mail concurrently with incoming mail. This will mean that not all mail will arrive chronologically until the backlog in the queue has been cleared. It will probably take the better part of the day to get mail from the queues to processing and then depending on the traffic to your ISP further time to get delivered. BIGPOND in Australia is having mail receipt problems and the e-mail delivery of LISTS2 has been slightly adversely affected. We will spool mail for Bigpond users until their servers recover. We did have difficulties with a small number of lists that has meant that these lists are not currently operational and will not be until we have manually checked and fixed any outstanding issues. A list is not currently available. When all else fails...you can always contact me directly at rbozzay@earthlink.net. I had cleaned out my address book about a week before this took place thinking...all the messages are stored in the archives, and the addresses are all in list tools for me...I don't need this...but I was wrong! I did have a few (less than 10% of our over 300 member email addresses in specific messages I had kept and tried to at least contact those of you I could. Sorry if I didn't have yours and you were not contacted. Hopefully this was a one time problem and we will be up and running smoothly from now on. Please keep this email so you have the contact links and then we might be able to keep in touch! Glad we are all back together again! Laura