Thank you Patsy for your offer to help. I also appreciate the help you have given me in the past. I don't know how much I can tellyou on your list of names other then where they connect with a Roscoe family. Most of my data, which is certainly not complete has to do with the various Roscoe families in that area. By the way you might not want to list your sur-name interest as you did on the bottom of your note. Listing a string of surnames that you and perhaps other may have an INTEREST in on this mailing list may be considered a "Roll Call" request and that a big no no which might get you removed by the list mon for breaking the rules, messing up the search engine, and filling up other member mail boxes with what has been termed by her as useless list of names or something to that effect. I to am on several mailing list and I receive hundreds of e-messages every day. Most of these messages are not to me but to someone else on which ever list they are going to but I don't flame or complane about my mail box fill up with information that means nothing to me. That what I have found out the delete button onmy computer is good for. If I did not want to receive messages, I would just not join open to everone mailing list. And of course some folks get real upset if you forget to reply to them with a lot of thank yous or if they think you have intentionally said something that might have offended someone else when no offence was intended in the first place. Perhaps it would be best if we correstponded off list. My e-mail address is < jrrasco@aol.com > My snail address is: James R. Rasco 2000 Alejo del Sur Harvey, La. 70058-2901

OK, enough is enough. I would not normally do this publicly on the list, because it tends to waste the time of everyone involved, but since Mr. Rasco feels it necessary to make comments onlist, then he will be answered onlist. There is not now, and never has been, a rule on this list against what you put in your signature line. We have only 3 rules -- (1) Posts should be on topic, relating to history or genealogy in the Chesterfield County area. (2) We do not do "roll call" type posts, which is any message with nothing other than surnames, whether one or many. (3) Flaming, sarcasm, abuse, and other mistreatment of list members is NOT allowed. In all the time that I have been list-mom, exactly ONE person has been temporarily unsubscribed for repeated violations of one or more of these rules. As you may guess from the tone of his email, that would be Mr. Rasco. As you can also see, he is back on the list -- he was told that he was certainly free to resubscribe if he would abide by the rules of the list. In case there is any confusion, I personally don't believe that this post is in the spirit of abiding by the rules. So, this time a public warning. Mr. Rasco, your next violation of the list rules will result in your being banned from this list. My apologies to you all for this discussion of something that should never have been public business. This sort of thing is certainly a distraction from the sharing of information that is the list's purpose, and it's unfortunate that it happened at a time when there was a nice discussion going on. I hope that we can get back to the discussion of genealogy now. Angie List-mom At 08:18 PM 12/03/2001 -0500, Jrrasco@aol.com wrote: >By the way you might not want to list your sur-name interest as you did on >the bottom of your note. Listing a string of surnames that you and perhaps >other may have an INTEREST in on this mailing list may be considered a "Roll >Call" request and that a big no no which might get you removed by the list >mon for breaking the rules, messing up the search engine, and filling up >other member mail boxes with what has been termed by her as useless list of >names or something to that effect. >I to am on several mailing list and I receive hundreds of e-messages every >day. Most of these messages are not to me but to someone else on which ever >list they are going to but I don't flame or complane about my mail box fill >up with information that means nothing to me. That what I have found out the >delete button onmy computer is good for. If I did not want to receive >messages, I would just not join open to everone mailing list. And of course >some folks get real upset if you forget to reply to them with a lot of thank >yous or if they think you have intentionally said something that might have >offended someone else when no offence was intended in the first place.