No "Flames" or criticisms are accepted, suggestions or recommendations are made at times but they should be phrased and received as such.

Please, do not send attachments with your email to the list. If you want to make anything available, such as a gedcom file or a picture, just announce it to the list and offer to privately email it to anyone that would like to have a copy.

Do post census, cemetery indexes, marriage lists, birth lists, death information and obituaries. Any misc. information that you may have in your files may benefit someone else on the list.

Do take an active part in the discussion list. It will be only as good as each of us makes it.

When meeting a "new" cousin on the list, share your good fortune with every one.

If at anytime you have a question concerning something you do not understand about the list please, please feel free to contact the list coordinator.

When replying to a post, please do not quote the entire message again. If you feel that some of the original must be re-quoted, be selective and only quote what is needed.

Be sure you think about what you are posting to the list. What you send out will be read my many people; in addition it will be stored into a permanent archives. You want to catch people's eye by your subject line. Many people receive to many email a day, to read them all and that person just may be a cousin, with all your missing clues. So read some of the many articles that are published on the Net with instructions on how to post to a list.

Post often, there are new subscribers every day. Don't be afraid to make your initial post. Introduce your self and tell everyone whom you are researching.

Participate and have fun.

IBM also says: "Help prevent Internet litter: do not forward hoax warnings to others, no matter how strenuously the warning itself urges you to. Just Say No.".

This is a good quote [Computer Viruses and "False Authority Syndrome" -- "Many people sound confident when they talk about computer viruses -- yet very few have adequate knowledge of this technically obscure subject. Most fall prey to what some virus experts call "False Authority Syndrome," and it contributes significantly to the spread of fear & myths about computer viruses. This treatise by Rob Rosenberger persuades readers to question the credentials of anybody (including Rosenberger!) who claims to speak with authority on this subject."]

Here is another good quote ["Why would the author not just make the subject 'New virus alert!' Everyone would open it and the dragon would pop out and eat your computer." -- Usenet reader Keith Varnes, asking the obvious question]