Dear listers: This is a problem really filling up our trash bins. If you have a message of interest to only one person, i.e. you have asked the list, and one person answers, after contact, please carry on your correspondence privately with that person and not on the list. I went away for the afternoon, and came back to find 38 email messages on my computer, about 19 of which told me someone's mailbox was full and he could not receive messages. No, I don't know what it meant, because the messages were in MY mailbox, as were his answers to people obviously emailing him. It is polite to say thank you to someone who has helped you. Please do it personally to that person, and not to the mailing list. It is nice to send greetings to people. Please do it personally, and not on the mailing list. If you are addressing a single person ("Dear Appolonia, do you think...") please do it just to Appolonia, and not to a hundred or more other people, who do not need your message. Overuse of mailing lists causes people to unsubscribe. Look at the address. The person's name is there, and so is his address. If you can't find it, send one more message to the list and ask him to contact you. We have a wonderful group of helping, caring people. Please consider whether your message will be of interest to everybody, or to only one person. If you are corresponding with one person, you do not need the mailing list. I don't want to discourage those whose answers may help everyone, but please, if it's one to one, do it off the list. Nan Dixon, listmaster. -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyjeffer/