I thought that one of the roles of the List Administrator was to monitor the list and put a stop to exchanges such as these by removing the offending party from the list. Craig, are you not getting the message here. Folks subscribe to these lists to exchange POSITIVE words and thoughts and to help each other with genealogical matters. Messages from you like the two below have less than zero value and consume valuable time and space with GARBAGE that has nothing to do with genealogy. In short, they have no place on this list. Of course Paul and Margaret are going to defend each other, like any friends would do. The two of them have worked closely together to publish books. Because of my high regard for both Paul and Margaret, their tremendous individual and collective knowledge, and their endless willingness to help others, I have grown very fond of them without ever personally meeting either. I have purchased two of their books which are excellent works. I am quite sure that there are many people on this list that feel the same as I do. I would ask Margaret to plead with Paul to return to the list. I am quite saddened to learn of his unsubscribing. On the other hand, the obvious solution for the prevention of any further such exchanges would be for the list administrator to remove you, Craig, from this list and I am hereby making that formal request of the list administrator. A simpler alternative, however, would be for you to voluntarily unsubscribe yourself. One last thing, Craig. Don't bother to reply to this message because you will be wasting your time writing something that will not be read. I, for one, DO know how to use the delete key and in the future, any message arriving in my mailbox with your name attached will indeed get the automatic delete. Moreover, I would like to lobby for all other members of this list to do the same. Now, I must offer my sincerest apologies to the rest of the list for dragging on this ridiculous exchange for one more round. I am usually very tolerant and have a high level of patience, but I finally popped my cork on this latest of many verbal assaults. Best regards to everyone and lets get back to genealogy. Jeff Smith << last two messages from Craig copied below >> "Paul can speak for himself, can't he Margaret? Or is this Margaret speaking for Paul? I know you (plural) say you won't be "questioned", but maybe one of you can answer the following: 1. At what firm has Paul ever practiced law? and when? 2. Where and to whom has he lectured on genealogy, and on what topic? 3. What articles has he authored on genealogy, when were they published and and who published them? Craig Kilby" "Remember, Paul has not said he unsubscribed or quit the list. Margaret said that. So send your emails to Margaret. And Paul said Margaret would not be "tested" on her post on religion. So if you want to question Margaret, send an email to Paul. I think they are the same person, a split personality. Maybe we can hear from him/her seperately and get this sorted out? Craig"

Let's put an end to ALL of this and get back to genealogy. This thread doesn't need more fuel from anyone else. Harvey Researching the following families: Bottoms/Bottom/Longbottom, Keas, Stribling/Stripling, Chambers, Hodges, Golden, Sweeney, Lovelace, Welch, Pettit, Cagle and others.

Well said Jeff----and I second the motion. Jeff Smith wrote: > I thought that one of the roles of the List Administrator was to monitor > the list and put a stop to exchanges such as these by removing the > offending party from the list. > > Craig, are you not getting the message here. Folks subscribe to these > lists to exchange POSITIVE words and thoughts and to help each other > with genealogical matters. Messages from you like the two below have > less than zero value and consume valuable time and space with GARBAGE > that has nothing to do with genealogy. In short, they have no place on > this list. > > Of course Paul and Margaret are going to defend each other, like any > friends would do. The two of them have worked closely together to > publish books. Because of my high regard for both Paul and Margaret, > their tremendous individual and collective knowledge, and their endless > willingness to help others, I have grown very fond of them without ever > personally meeting either. I have purchased two of their books which > are excellent works. > > I am quite sure that there are many people on this list that feel the > same as I do. I would ask Margaret to plead with Paul to return to the > list. I am quite saddened to learn of his unsubscribing. > > On the other hand, the obvious solution for the prevention of any > further such exchanges would be for the list administrator to remove > you, Craig, from this list and I am hereby making that formal request of > the list administrator. A simpler alternative, however, would be for > you to voluntarily unsubscribe yourself. > > One last thing, Craig. Don't bother to reply to this message because > you will be wasting your time writing something that will not be read. > I, for one, DO know how to use the delete key and in the future, any > message arriving in my mailbox with your name attached will indeed get > the automatic delete. Moreover, I would like to lobby for all other > members of this list to do the same. > > Now, I must offer my sincerest apologies to the rest of the list for > dragging on this ridiculous exchange for one more round. I am usually > very tolerant and have a high level of patience, but I finally popped my > cork on this latest of many verbal assaults. > > Best regards to everyone and lets get back to genealogy. > Jeff Smith > > << last two messages from Craig copied below >> > > "Paul can speak for himself, can't he Margaret? Or is this Margaret > speaking > for Paul? I know you (plural) say you won't be "questioned", but maybe > one > of you can answer the following: > > 1. At what firm has Paul ever practiced law? and when? > 2. Where and to whom has he lectured on genealogy, and on what topic? > 3. What articles has he authored on genealogy, when were they published > and > and who published them? > > Craig Kilby" > > "Remember, Paul has not said he unsubscribed or quit the list. Margaret > said > that. So send your emails to Margaret. And Paul said Margaret would > not be > "tested" on her post on religion. So if you want to question Margaret, > send > an email to Paul. I think they are the same person, a split > personality. > Maybe we can hear from him/her seperately and get this sorted out? > > Craig" > > ==== VA-SOUTHSIDE Mailing List ==== > VAGenWeb > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vagenweb > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp