1st ,I know I'm spam to some. Feel free to delete on sight any hermfagley@juno.com and HFAGLEY@aol.com notes 2nd,I ran into a new kind of spam on a rootsweb-l list today created by a [?] teacher -genealogist. Accidently,I'm sure,but it can ruin rootsweb.com lists. She was using something called an automatic reply Email software, to say" Hello,I will be gone til SEPT 9: please contact Mrs Peterson,who is covering for me.". The idea is fine, but every querie to that county's rootsweb.com will recieve that note,in addition to other answers. Say only 10%, or 25,of the members of OHCLERMO-L @ rootweb.com had that software in auto-matic reply mode,answering list queries,and answeres. In the 1992-mid 1993 PRODIGY geneaalogy,there were a few who would post sections of books. At that time,every Prodigy genealogy Email "would "age-off" after 7-10 days,and we could not up-load, and down-load to share, so one genealogist would tell another they had found some great new data at X location. Prodigy then created a location for those resources where they could "not" age off, but also, no EMail of "THANKS" could be sent to the writer of the excellent post. And, without geetting some EMAIL'S of THANKS, the people quit posting. So it is with the volunteers who are posting great things on the Web. I have in mind,among others, those posting quanities of data to www.usgenweb.com "STATE ARCHIVES search engine". Perhaps a short EMAIL of thanks to those typing hours the great data would be in order. "Always" make the 1st EMAIL to any new ADDRESS short. People change Email addresses far more often than Snail Mail addresses. I sometines address it simply "TEST" and type 1 byte for a message,and wait a bit to see if AOL,or Daemon tells me it's wrong. Not getting a wrong address message,then I type the longer EMAIL There is no need to send "Thank you ' notes to me.They are just a 2nd irritation to those my original Emails irritate. And I wish I COULD figure out why sometimes my replies,set to go privately, are private,and sometime go to the whole list. I'm guessing it is the toggles the list-owner has set. ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.