Dear Listers: 1) Rootsweb recently did some maintenance work to the servers. This likely changed DNS server numbers that were included in a "white-listing" agreement with AOL. AOL also was doing some internal work that was affecting (and may still affect?) receipt of Rootsweb (and other?) mail. On the 12th & 13th of November ALL subscribers that have AOL as their ISP or whose ISP uses the AOL servers were unsubscribed from the Stewart list for "excessive bounces." As the mail from Rootsweb was not going through, no one would have received notification of their address being unsubscribed. I have heard that AOLers are now able to receive Rootsweb mail. Therefore, I have just completed (individual) manual subscription of nearly 100 addresses. If you had forgotten you were subscribed to the list or no longer desire to be subscribed to the list, you may follow the directions at the bottom of this message to (again) unsubscribe your address. If you had been subscribed to other Rootsweb lists, you will want to check your subscriptions and resubscribe to any that are no longer showing on your account. Not all Admins are resubscribing the addresses that have fallen off the lists. Nor are we doing it for ALL the lists we may manage. Don't take the chance of missing a connection with a cousin! 2) I have noted for some time that most of the traffic to this list is generated by the gateway from the Message Board. Very few of the posts are being sent by the subscribers to this list. Don't just sit there and wait! Your cousins may actually have subscribed and moved on as they did not see a post from YOU! Time to stop lurking and participate. Take a moment to consider when was the last time you posted to the list. If you don't know, then it has been too long. If you don't know and you are curious, use the archive search engine to find out. You will be surprised, I am certain at how long it has been! Visit: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search Choose Advanced Search Put your email address in the box marked "from" In the box marked "list" put the surname Stewart The address to use to post to the list is: [email protected] Let's hear from you! What's your brick wall? What's changed since you last posted? Yours Aye, Lauren -- Lauren Boyd McLachlan Stewart List & Board Admin Rootsweb Volunteer since 1996 100+/- Lists, 223 Bulletin Boards