> Although, this is not genealogy, I offer the following, > as a way of cutting down on SPAM. Thanks, Margaret, for your excellent tutorial on avoiding spam. I can think of only one additional strategy. Sooner or later, no matter how you try, your name will probably be spread around and you will find yourself saddled with spam. If you are smart and follow Margaret's advice, it will be several years before this happens, but eventually it probably will. If and when you begin to receive unbearable amounts of spam, change your e-mail address. Call your ISP and notify them that you want to set up a new e-mail address. Tell them you want to continue your old email address for 30 days after the new one is set up. Then, go through your email address book and email all the people who are important to you, informing them of your new email address. Allow your old email address to exist for 30 days or so, to allow those you may have overlooked to turn up. Then have your old email address eliminated. From then on, all those spammers who are plaguing you will send their junk to an invalid address and you won't receive it. It will be returned to them as being undeliverable. Regards, Byron byron.bray@cmug.com