I had been looking for a volunteer to take over the Loudoun County Mail List ever since I became county coordinator a few months ago. I contacted the previous county coordinator Sue Beach and told her of my plans to discontinue the list and she had informed me that the list was not very active when she had it. She said it had declined in its use in recent years. I have a cousin who is subscribed to the list and she told also told me the same thing that she never seen any activity on it the whole time she had been subscribed to it. I put up an advertisement on the Loudoun County web page asking for a volunteer to take over the list but it seemed like nobody was paying any attention to the notice. So I changed the wording of the advertisement and said I would discontinue the list after January 1st, 2000 and I asked people to contact me if they had any questions about it. I figured this was OK to do since there was no activity on the list. I had plans to contact members on the list about a volunteer but I didn't notify them right away. A month goes by and not one person contacted me about the list. One day out of the blue, I get this angry email from a list member demanding to know why I'm getting rid of the mail list. I discovered that when I put up the notice to discontinue the list, the list became alive with a flurry of activity gossiping about me getting rid of the list. My cousin told me that she had never seen the list so "shook up" and that I had caused the most activity she had ever seen on it. I explained my situation to this person as pleasantly as I could and defended my reasons for getting rid of the list. The good news is this person is now the new mail list owner. Now I'm waiting for the list to calm down and go back to the same state it was in before this whole thing got started. I guess the only time people show their appreciation is when they think they are going to lose something. It seems to me that being a USGenWeb volunteer can be a thankless job sometimes. I wanted to let others coordinators know what to expect from list members if they have plans to get rid of their lists. If I had it to do this all over again, I would have done it differently. Thanks, Wayne Greene Loudoun County Coordinator