Dear Listers, Probably some of you will skip this, but I can't think of a better subject heading so early in the morning. This is one of the reasons I was reluctant to take on a listowner's job: I hate to tell people they shouldn't do things. This is straight from headquarters, and came in this morning: "RootsWeb accepts only plain text mail. That means that HTML mail, attachments, ``enriched text'', and a few other formats can't be sent to RootsWeb mailing lists. You can post your message if you send it in plain text; turn off the ``Post in HTML'' or ``Enriched Text'' features of your mail reader, or don't use any attachments." End of quote. They have removed a couple of letters from the list today, citing the problems html poses to many readers. I can read them, but after all, I use html to edit the website, and can ignore all those strange characters. The second topic occurs seldom in this list, but is a concern to those of us who must save some letters for future reference. When you reply to a letter on ANY mailing list, please try to delete as much of the original letter as you can. That shortens your letter, relieves the boredom of reading the same thing time after time, and makes your answer stand out. Yes, you do need to retain enough so that your readers, all your readers, know what you are writing about. That's the whole point of the list, so that everyone can share. And some of us get up to a hundred emails a day, and cannot remember every time, to what you are referring! So give us a hint, not a novel! Thanks to everybody out there, and an especial thanks to those of you who write and tell us that something on the website isn't working. We rely on you watchers! Nan Dixon -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyjeffer/