Okay, I am going to close the gateway and add a link to the signature of the list to remind all that there is a message board that should be checked regularly. In my own experience with the message boards, they were where my Flynn cousins found me, not the lists. If it wasn't for the boards, I wouldn't have met some great cousins and together we found where our Flynns were from in Ireland. One more note. If you find a message on the boards and want to write the sender privately, click on the link from the sender and you will get the email address if they choose to list it. Okay, now it is time for all of you to begin posting to the list. Without the boards, it will be very quiet. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA, list admin http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

Thank you Cliff for putting that so concisely. I've voted no every time this question has been raised but I've always been voted down. I finally gave up and assumed that it was probably my inability to express my displeasure with gatewaying adequately. You put it perfectly. And thank you Pat, for your rapid response. I now know I can at least read the Rensselaer list cleanly. I'll save Cliff's response for the next time this matter is raised on another list. Warm regards to all! Jim Groat