Hi again everyone, I don't know how long you've been without an administrator, nor do I know what his/her policies were. From what the settings were when I took over today, I've made some in-house administrative changes you'll probably notice: * Taglines are now at the bottom of each message. These are just simple list helps ~ nothing more. * In the subject line of each message you'll now see [VALEE] as opposed to [VALEE-L]. * Digests are now set to be sent every 12 hours. This will help you receive messages much faster. * Message limits are set to 20,000 bytes. This helps prevent older computers from locking up and digest messages from being truncated. * All messages will now reply back to the list. If you wish a message to be private, please be sure you change the "To:" line in the email message form. Small changes, I know; but these changes are enough to effect a change in the list. My guidelines will follow shortly. Every Sunday all of my surname lists receive the Sunday Morning Coffee, a newsletter of sorts that I put out. It's my way of having coffee with everyone on my lists. However, my city, state and county lists don't receive it unless the individuals wish to. Here's your opportunity... The Sunday Morning Coffee encompasses social history, how-to's or just general topics geared toward genealogy, history, and/or geography. There may even be a short story, again geared toward our love of family history. No specific surname or region is discussed. It's not a "reply to" list, and normally only one message per week will come to you, that being the newsletter on Sunday morning. If you're interested you need to send an email to <SundayCoffee-subscribe@topica.com>, and plan to join me for coffee next Sunday! :) My husband is a soldier who just came home after being gone for a while. So, there won't be a Coffee until next weekend (26 May). I wish you all a SUPER Saturday, full of fun! :) Colleen