If you wish to respond, PLEASE respond to me at [email protected] Dear friends, I am still getting people asking to unsub from this mailing list by replying to messages and writing unsub or some variation. This will not get you unsubscribed to the mailing list. The controversy over whether the Houston Chronicle obits should be posted is over, people have stopped complaining about it and we are ready, able and hopefully willing to move on. Janie Hinton has been unfaililngly kind and cooperative. She is going to submit the obits to East-Texas-Roots but not here. Please note that Janie did post her *own* family's obituaries to this list. These are people who lived in Nacogdoches County, and she was asking if anyone could give her any further information on these families, including HINTON and RAWLINSON. This is a legitimate way to make use of this mailing list, and it is completely different from posting obits from Houston. People have many reasons for deciding to no longer subscribe to a mailing list and what you choose to do is certainly up to you. BUT if you are a Nacogdoches County researcher, and the only reason you tried to unsub was to avoid the controversy over the obits, there really isn't any reason to unsub now. However, if you want to unsubscribe, here are the instructions. There is an automated computer that handles subscriptions and unsubscriptions. It is located at this address: [email protected] Note the addition of the -request to that address. Send an email to that address. In the first line of the BODY of the message, just put the one word unsubcribe Please be sure to send that request using the *same* email address you used to subscribe. I have several different email addresses, and if I use the wrong one, I'll get a message saying I wasn't unsubbed because my name wasn't on the list. People then write to me and say, but it is OBVIOUS I am on the list because I am getting the mail. However, what that means is you are getting the mail, but under a different email address. To get off, you have to unsub with the address you are subcribed with. If saves everyone a lot of time and effort if you will subscribe and unsubscribe yourselves. Please, follow the instructions and do it yourself. If you are having trouble, write to me at [email protected], but please, as with a query, give me *details* so that I can go to the utilities page and try to find the address you are subbed under. Writing to me to say "Take me off your list" doesn't help, because I manage several and you haven't told me which one. I need the name of the list, your name, the email address and a specific description of the problem you had unsubbing. If you unsubcribe and later want to resubscribe, once again send the request to [email protected] and put the one word subscribe in the first line of the body of the email message. Again, if you want to unsubscribe, that is fine. If you stay, I can't promise that you'll find everything on this list relevant, and that there won't be any more problems. However, I can promise that whatever problems crop up CAN BE RESOLVED without people unsubbing. It just takes a wee bit of patience and everyone's cooperation. Sincerely, Pam Phillips Email: [email protected] Listowner: TXNACOGD-L