OK, good news: your mailing list is ready to roll. Briefly (very), people can subscribe to your list in mail mode by sending a message to KIRBY-KERBY-L-request@rootsweb.com that contains the word subscribe and nothing else. If they prefer digest mode, they should send the command instead to KIRBY-KERBY-D-request@rootsweb.com. To unsubscribe, they should send the command "unsubscribe" to KIRBY-KERBY-L-request@rootsweb.com (if in mail mode) or KIRBY-KERBY-D-request@rootsweb.com (if in digest mode.) To switch from one mode to the other, they should unsubscribe from one and then subscribe to the other. There is no "no mail" mode -- if they want messages to stop, they should simply unsubscribe. To post to both KIRBY-KERBY-L and KIRBY-KERBY-D, messages should be sent to KIRBY-KERBY-L@rootsweb.com. Messages sent there will appear both places. Adrianne Researching: Hunsucker, Griffith, Kirby, Whitlatch, Kennedy, Vandeford, Hopkins, Plummer, Golden, Nuckolls, Warbington, King, Cushman and Hadaway, Sasser as my main lines. http://members.tripod.com/~ahopkins/index.html HOPKINS LIST OWNER @rootsweb