Margie, I don't think you accomplished anything here. When the gateway between the mailing board and the mailing list is open as it is in Iron County, the board messages, immediately upon being posted to the Message Board, whether they're against the rules or not, shoot straight through the gateway to everyone subscribed to the mailing list. Even though you deleted it from the Board, it was too late to prevent it from going out to everyone on the List. Therefore, we all got the full version plus your edited version and they're both now in the List archives. That's one of the things I don't like about the open gateway - the List administrator doesn't have control over what comes through to the List, and even though it's something that doesn't pertain to the List or is against the rules such as this commercial post, it goes into the List archives and there it stays. It also defeats the actions of the Board Administrator in deleting messages. B. On Mon, November 6, 2006 7:58 am, margecam52@msn.com said: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zMB.2ACI/1287 > > Message Board Post: > > Pat, Rootsweb does not allow offers of books for sale. I had to > delete the original note & have posted a revised copy here. Sorry > for the inconvenience, I don't make the rules...just try to follow > them. This looks like something others will want to know about, so > I took out a few words to try to make it comply with the rules > (bending them a bit).