In a message dated 8/9/03 10:39:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Thank you, Shirley, for a positive response Lord, I know. It happens. You think you are helping and the nitpickers creep out of the woodwork. Whoops, sorry. <grin> Anyway, I skipped all of those with that subject line, knowing what was happening. But I read yours and decided, hey, for goodness sakes, stop beating up on the woman and realize that the man is more than likely blocking all our messages. See, before AOL, etal, I ran a Bulletin Board system, a FIDO, free service, for 2 years. My daughter took care of the technical stuff, but I learned how easy it is to block messages, etc. How easy to change them, too, and make it appear the original sender had messed up. I do hope they will save the woman's job, durn it. Sometimes these politicians don't understand how important this hobby is or how much money it generates. We planned a trip to Oswego this fall, now I'm not sure. Shirley Maynard