I am sorry for your loss, and understand your need to release your anger, but I don't think that an occasional bit of humor ever hurts any mail list. And certainly graveyard humor is appropriate to genealogists. After all, don't all of our friends and family think us weird for spending our weekends exploring old cemeteries instead of at the beach or something?<g> As a members of many mail lists, I learned a long time ago that they put the delete key there for a reason... use it. John At 08:30 AM 8/11/98 -0400, you wrote: >jHumphrey wrote: >> >> Putting aside the timing of the joking epitaphs to me, here are my other >> thoughts. One subscribes to a family surname site because that is what >> one wants - not to have to delete unsolicited mail. Many people don't >> want to wade through inappropriate verbiage which is very time wasting. >> The epitaphs had absolutely nothing to do with any Weaver family. I have >> joined many others who unsubscribe from surname sites because of emails >> that are useless to family searching. The epitaphs belong on a joke or >> humor site, not on a surname site. Jackie >> >> -------------------------- >> GWJCAL@aol.com wrote: >> > >> > I'm sorry for you loss. However, I recieved an overwhelming positive response >> > to that forward. One person asked if they could post it on their web site. >> > Computer keyboards have a DELETE button for unwanted e mail. > > >==== WEAVER Mailing List ==== > > > ----------- John K. Brown, Jr. jkbrown@mindspring.com Researching: Burt, Brown, Abney, Watts