Please remember that there is a maximum size of an email posted to this Mailing List. This is necessary due to so many users having ISP's that limit the size of emails they receive. Therefore the following is provided to guide you in your postings: 1) This List has a maximum of 10,000 (10 Kb) for the size of an individual posting. 2) Remember that if you format your long post to just at 10 Kb, it may not get posted because by the time the headers and footers are added, the size is slightly over the limit. 3) The same concern in #2 above also affects many of our fellow researchers. Some services add more data in headers or footers than others; by the time long posts get to some users the size is also over the 10 Kb limit of those servers. Because of the above, I would heartily recommend that when you post long emails containing pedigrees, family trees, etc., you check out the size BEFORE posting. The way I do it is to type the entire email, then select what I think is somewhere around 6-8 Kb and save it into a temporary file. Then I look at that file in either Windows Explorer or in DOS and see exactly how large the file is. With experimentation, you will soon be able to closely guess how much material makes up 6-8 Kb. I RECOMMEND YOU KEEP YOUR POSTS TO THAT FIGURE, 6-8 Kb. Many users pass on such information and by the time their text is added, and more headers and footers, the resulting email is over the 10 Kb limit. *****VERY IMPORTANT -- READ THIS***** When you reply to one of these very long posts, DO NOT quote back ALL of the post. That is considered very bad netiquette. You need quote back ONLY the part to which you are replying about. If you're replying just in general to the long post, quote back only the first line or two, so that others know what you're talking about. If you are like me, you get really aggravated when you see a reply to a 9 Kb post, where the replier quotes back ALL of the post and adds something like, "Thanks for the info." Then someone else replies to the reply, quoting back both the original and the one short sentence, and adds something like, "Thanks from me too." In those cases, you don't need to quote back ANYTHING. The subject line tells what you are referring to. If you don't know HOW to quote back only necessary parts of a previous post, just use your mouse to highlight the parts you don't want to include in the reply and hit the DELETE key, leaving only that part you want to quote back. For AOL users, if their system is still set up as it was in the past, you use your mouse pointer to highlight the portion you DO want to quote back. Just don't select ALL of the original post. Regards, SgtGeorge George W. Durman Listowner