As of this date there are 216 subscribers to the PATE listserver at RootsWeb. Most are in the US, but there are subscribers in Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand. A compilation or digest of all messages posted to the list is sent out each 24 hour period as a PATE-D posting. If there are no messages to compile into a digest, a digest is not sent. This is the "silence" you have been experiencing of recent date. To get something out of PATE-L we need to share or put something in. Questions, findings and observations must be posted to PATE-L@RootsWeb.com. Private exchanges between PATE researchers are not posted. Inquiries and responses on other PATE venues, such as GenForum and Ancestry.com are not posted on PATE-L. Your Administrator (me) is perhaps the one who short changes PATE-L the most in this regard. I'll try to do better. The problem this AOL seems to have been resolved. Joel