List Readers: Posting obit submissions to the list mailing is not a good idea. Please refrain from doing this in the future. Not only do they require some work to prepare them for a web program but there are also other issues, too. Other than making my job a little easier - another issue is that sometimes obits posted on the list are in violation of the copyright laws. Posting information about living people without their permission is not a good idea. If your obits have living people then we must abstract them - remove living people. If they are abstracted then we should list that they are abstracted. Another issue is that the newspaper who printed the obit has the copyright - not the relatives who gave the information - unless it is a paid obit - and so that is another reason why we abstract them. If they are over 70 years old then we can post any of them without a problem. So please send me your obits in Word or Note Pad so that I can be sure that we are following rules and so that I can post them on the web without a lot of unnecessary work. If you need more information our submission guidelines are posted on the web site. Please help me to follow the rules. Donna Cooper