Choosing to cancel is a personal decision. Since the request appeared during an extended discussion of gatewayed messages, I'll offer my own perspective of those: I'm glad to have the gatewayed messages. I joined the Bucks County list in hopes of learning about my Bucks County ancestry. My great-great-great grandparents (Charles Morrow and Rachel Morton) apparently married in Bucks County in roughly 1802/3. Several of their children were born there, possibly including my great-great-grandfather, Marshall Morrow (in 1813). Charles was drafted for War of 1812 service from Bridgepoint, near Doylestown. About 1816/7, the family moved on to eastern Ohio. In about three years on this list, I've learned nothing new about my family through it. That's discouraging. Now that those posting to the Bucks County query board are also passed through this mailing list, there has been an increase in mail -- but this list remains far less active than the major lists to which I belong. The increased mail means we have more access to others with Bucks county connections and improves the chances of finding information of value in my own research. Of course, it also increases the messages that add nothing to my research. But they're easy to delete, too. The increased potential for help is a worthy benefit for the low price of deleting a few more messages. As to the cancellation, announcing your decision to the list is pointless. All rootsweb lists use the same subscribe and unsubscribe conventions, which are not served by sending a message to the list you wish to join or leave. Type just the single word "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" (without the quote marks) in the subject line and on the first line of the message area. Do not type anything else in the message area; if you use a signature file, you should shut it off for this message. For individual messages: xxx-L-request@rootsweb.com (for example PABUCKS-L-request@rootsweb.com) For digest format, where messages are grouped into one e-mail: xxx-D-request@rootsweb.com (for example PABUCKS-D-request@rootsweb.com) The master page for rootsweb lists, showing the full range available is: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ Duncan Morrow ----- Original Message ----- From: <LHammer98@aol.com> To: <PABUCKS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 9:44 AM Subject: [PABUCKS-L] Cancel > Cancel