Dear Kevin, Whilst all these ideas you put forward are part of the going forward with the times, it is indeed taking from the the Wexford list what it was intended for, to be used by the listers, but a series of things have occurred on this list, 1- Being the list that was compiled by the list owner and appears on the bottom of all mails to the list whilst a modern innovation and good idea there is never any input to suggest that newbies look at this list, but once clicked on it does defeat the purpose of what the lists were originally intended for and that was to encourage the exchange and input to the list, which of course has died over the last few months it just simply needs a burial to finish it off. Also this is a ROOTSWEB based forum it is not here to promote other ways and means of utilising our own ends by creating other forums on other sites, is this not spreading the resources to the absolute limit. So instead of looking for more, places to post more things why not simply introduce to this list a worthy subject, for discussion on the list, and thereby re-creating interest in the list Yes some of us have been researching forever and a day, and find these lists of some use, and yes we are competing with a new area of research with mobiles, twitter and face book to name a few, but being faithful to the Rootsweb Wexford list is not too much to ask I dont think at all, as loyalty is needed to get these lists up and going again I dont feel it is the obligation to have a young member build us a social network on any of the modern forums but for us to support and re-build what is available here These are my thoughts and as anyone would know me, my loyalties remain with Rootsweb,they were the first to give researchers their free site, and now they appear to be the ones that will be tossed aside first ( not a good idea I think) My ten cents worth Cara I use BullGuard Spamfilter to keep my inbox clean. It is completely free: www.bullguard.com/freespamfilter