In a message dated 7/27/2000 1:26:40 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << I have volunteered to look up ONE family in the 1870 census, I have NOT volunteered to go through the whole census looking for some child named John Smith or Jane Doe, please don't ask the look up volunteers to do the unreasonable Sandy in Florida >> TACT = tact (noun) [French, sense of touch, from Latin tactus, from tangere to touch -- more at TANGENT] First appeared 1797 1 : sensitive mental or aesthetic perception <converted the novel into a play with remarkable skill and ~> 2 : a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense