Dave, Thanks for your message but...please refrain from cross posting to multiple lists like this. Your mail has the potential to generate 1,000's of emails all in response and reresponse to your original mail. Most mail list subscribers are not savvy about deleting trailing mails or cc'd lists. For example, your mail generated 5 responses that were posted to our SOMGEN list -- none of these were from Somerset County researchers. While I realize that your mail was sent to generate conversation on a general topic -- it should not have been sent to so many lists - [email protected] would have targeted all the county coordinators in PA and we could have in turn sent your mail onto our own county lists if we chose to do so. Sorry to be such a pill ...but as a RootsWeb SysAdmin volunteer - your mail could have severe repercussions on the stability of the mail list server. [A word to recipients of this mail - PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS MAIL -- OR TO THE ORIGINAL ONE. IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A COMMENT RE: DAVE'S ORIGINAL MAIL THEN SEND IT TO [email protected] DIRECTLY AND DELETE THE CC: LIST!!!!! ed. Carol Hepburn] Thank you! Carol E. Hepburn [email protected] [email protected] List Owner PAGenWeb Somerset County http://www.rootsweb.com/~pasomers/