Hi all. Any of you who use the Message Boards to post and answer queries, and
share data you find with fellow researchers, have probably noticed a new
look. Clicking on old Message Board links will take you to the correct board
and thread, but perhaps not to the right message. With a very long thread,
you may have scroll down the entire page, or even click to the next page. To
post now, you MUST login. I think that's a good thing, because it will keep
spammers off the boards.
Please take the time to check your Public Profile (upper right-hand corner of
the page) and fill it out with any information you would like fellow
researchers to know about you. Oddly, you have a profile on both the Rootsweb
and Ancestry sides, and they can be different! Although I don't know why you
would want them to be. You can change information here at any time, and you
need not have a public profile if you don't want one.
Also important (and new) is that if you want people to be able to contact you
by email, on the Ancestry side, at least, you have to click on My Site
Preferences, and then "Display my email address to other members.Free for
members to contact you." If you don't click this, people accessing the boards
through Ancestry will not be able to see your email address, and will *only*
be able to contact you by posting on the board, or through a new
paid "Connection Service" where both sides remain anonymous.
As you know, the Message Board, which has the new URL of
http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.calhoon/mb.ashx
is "gatewayed" to this list. Posters to the Board do *not* have to subscribe
to the list, and many of them don't. Previously, you could reply to gatewayed
Message Board posts by either replying on the list and CCing the poster, or
clicking the link and replying on the board. From now on, the ONLY way to
reply to the poster will be on the board. The poster's email no longer
displays on the list copy of the board post. I don't like this, and don't
know why it is the new policy, but that's the way it is, and if we want to
effectively communicate to board posters, it will have to be by replying on
the board from now on.
Have you all used MyAccount at Rootsweb? Upper right-hand corner of the page,
again. It takes a few minutes to enter all your email addresses in, but I've
found it to be a very useful time-saver. If you haven't tried it, now is the
time! Well, after Christmas, perhaps.
:-)
Happy Holidays, one and all,
Valorie
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Calhoon-L.htm <--- needs a
spot of update, I know......