This should have been sent directly to JOE. This is the point that Sgt has been trying to get across to the list. Sending this to the list serves no purpose. Marcella Davis wrote: > > This is to JOE, > > You sound like you were in the Army. Well I wans't and some rules are ment > to be broken. > > I like the Genforum better than this old stuffy place any way so I'm out of > here. > > You can take the rules and *&%^#[email protected])($$*(&%! them! Marcie. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, September 08, 1998 11:08 AM > Subject: SURNAME-QUERY-D Digest V98 #408 > > ==== SURNAME-QUERY Mailing List ==== > APPROPRIATE SUBJECT LINES: > In an effort to provide meaningful Subject: lines in posts to the > SURNAME-QUERY List, the Listowner asks you to try to adhere to the > following format: > > SURNAME, First MI;dates;places > > An example would look like this: > > BROWNING, Arthur C.;1795-1876;PA>VA>OH > > Users of this SURNAME-QUERY List do not download every day in order > to read each of the hundreds of posts. They are looking for certain > SURNAMES, on which they are doing research, or are willing to help > others with research of said SURNAMES. Therefore, if you do not > provide meaningful Subject: lines, chances are good that your posts > will be deleted without having been read. > > Also, the accepted standard in conducting genealogy research via > the Internet/Web is to spell all SURNAMES in CAPS.