Slredmond@aol.com wrote: > > Hi Valorie - > Well, we all know AOL won't allow Brightmail, and neither will Juno. Do you > know about Earthlink? I'm thinking of changing ISP's because AOL does not > filter SPAM, even though they claim to try! I get at least 10 pieces of > obvious junk mail a day (low, I know, in comparison to other folks) and > several that I delete that I'm not sure about. I hear many complaints from AOL users about their limited filtering ability and the prevalence of SPAM. However, I hear other complaints about Earthlink -- I'm glad my choices are not so limited! You always have the choice to sign up with a free service like Yahoo (Email.com) which allows you to have pop mail. You simply use a good mail reader like Netscape Communicator or Eudora to read your mail. You will probably be able to use Brightmail or another filtering service, and you may be able to configure it to pull in your AOL mail, also (I'm not sure about that). If not, you can go about the process of changing your email address, tedious as that might be! > 2nd question - why doesn't this RootsWeb help list enable the [RootsWeb Help] > tag at the beginning of the subject line like most other RW lists? I delete > lots of mail that comes over with "somebody help me please" etc. thinking > that it's spam, until I see it repeat on the list with the responses. I'm not sure who is the listowner of this list, Sandy, but you can always contact them with your concern at this address: Rootsweb-Help-admin@rootsweb.com . If you read your mail with a real mail program, you can filter each list to its own folder, and not have to worry about the lack of a "prepend"! Merry Christmas, Valorie