Please remember to cut/delete repeated messages which you are replying to. I have the list programed to not let overly long posts go to the list, without my approval. I let the last three go through and I really shouldn't have done so. I should have sent them back to the senders and requested that they delete much of the repeated messages. I apologize to those receiving the digest. So, in the future, when a message is very long and get bumped to me for approval, I will probably refuse to allow it to go to the list. Instead, I will send a reject email to sender and request that they cut much of the repeated messages. I don't know what mail program you use, but many have a setting where you can select not to automatically repeat messages. I use that with my pacbell account and that way if I want to remind the reader about the message I am replying to, I just copy and paste the part of the message that pertains to my message. With my gmail account, the message I am replying to is automatically repeated so, I just delete most of it and keep the part that I am replying to. Thanks to all for your help in this and your cooperation. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA, list admin http://www.connorsgenealogy.com