Just having returned from a holiday without an Internet connection, I find that a handfull of subscribers have been having the annual shouting match about Thomas Jefferson and sex and race, to the great annoyance of subscribers who have heard this all before and whose e-mail boxes overflowed with short messages appended to long previous messages and making their daily digests burst at the seams. Also, some person was so annoyed, as Peter Bergstrom recently reported, that he or she managed to have one internet service provider block all messages from the Library of Virginia's server as Spam. That person unsubscribed, which deprives us of the pleasure of kicking her or him off the list permanently. Please, NOBODY undertake to speak or write for or on behalf of Va-Hist or any other list. Brent Tarter The Library of Virginia [log in to unmask] Please visit the Library of Virginia's Web site at http://www.lva.virginia.gov ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html