I'm not sure this will reach the list but This list is being held hostige and Elizbeth Harris has been Unsubscribed. Please someone help her. She is a FRIEND TO US ALL The following is a message from her : The situation at present is as follows. I was in England for ten days, with no access to e-mail, and returned home Thursday night (December 16th). I had asked Barbara several weeks ago if she would take care of the NCROOTS (rootsweb) list for me while I was gone, and she had agreed. Barbara was the original list manager (a term I prefer to listowner) for NCROOTS, and I knew that she would therefore be able to step in as a substitute with no further instructions. I also knew from past experience that her style of management is different from mine, but I did not feel that this disqualified her from managing the list in my absence. Barbara agreed to take over the list for me during my trip, and also offered to take it back permanently, but I told her that I was enjoying doing it, and would like to resume doing so after the trip. All our correspondence to that point was cordial, and I had no hesitation in turning the list over to her on December 4th, the day before I left. I first became aware of what had happened in my absence when I started reading the accumulated mail on Friday morning. On Saturday (yesterday) I went to the utility page for the list, intending to reinstate myself as list manager, but discovered that the password had been changed. I then attempted to subscribe to the list through the usual e-mail route, twice from this address and once from the NCGenWeb help line address, but never received an acknowledgement or welcome message. I sent two messages to the list, which were the two weekly updates of files posted to the NCGenWeb Archives. I have been told that Barbara reposted these to the NCROOTS list. However, she has not reinstated me as a subscriber, and I am not currently receiving messages from that list except as friends still on the list forward them to me. I have written to Barbara three times to ask what is going on, but have had no response from her. On reading the archived messages from the period when I was gone, I discovered that she changed the tag lines to remove my name as contact person, and changed the list to moderated status, on December 14th. At this point I cannot confirm that Barbara is unwilling to turn the list back over to me, since I have had no direct communication from her, but it certainly appears from everything that I have seen so far that this is her intention. I have not yet decided what further action I am going to take. Meanwhile, thank you again, all of you, for your help and support! Elizabeth Harris state coordinator, NCGenWeb If you folks are as sick of this as I am YOU CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT> JOIN THE NEW LIST by clicking on NCROOTS-subscribe@onelist.com this will subscrribe you to the new list, where you can search your NC Roots in a less hostile enviroment. Neal has asked Elizabeth to take over at the controls of the new list. However before you subscribe please beware that the rules are a little different on it. Absolutly NO MEANSPIRITED MESSAGES ALLOWED. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com