Threaded archives
The threaded archives are official and I hope everyone will browse through
them -- and particularly note the value of putitng as much who, when, where
information as briefly possible in the subject . This will help in the list
and Rootsweb mission of building up an archive of freely exchanged
genealogical information on the net.
The following was Marc's announcement to the listowners that the threaded
archives are now official. I urge everyone to look at the archives --
search chronologically, for your own name, for a place, etc. The URL is
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/search.html.
Search other surname archives too. Good hunting.
Patricia Tidmarsh, Listowner
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From Marc--
>>Listowners,
Some of you may still be unaware of this announcement that came
through this week's Rootsweb Review.
We are very excited about providing this new service to all Rootsweb
mailing lists and strongly encourage that you take advantage of it for
your mailing list.
On Thursday alone there were over 168,000 hits on the website and
since then the number of archived messages have surpassed 152,607 with
the the number of mailing lists have growing to 1,220!
-marc
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This is the official notice from Rootsweb Review --
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NEWS AND NOTES FROM ROOTSWEB
THREADED LIST ARCHIVES ARE NOW AVAILABLE. Now you can read
122,813 messages from 877 mailing lists using your Web browser by
visiting <
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/>. All those messages are
from just three months of beta tests -- watch this archives grow
with its public debut.
This is a remarkably comfortable way to browse through the posts
that have been made to the lists. Be sure to use the integrated
search engine to find what you are looking for.
To use the Archiver you will need to pick a user name and
password and you will need to accept a cookie. The reason for
passwords and cookies is to keep spammers' e-mail address
harvesters *out* of the archives. Because of this password-and-
cookie feature, listowners can set up lists to be archived with
confidence that they are *not* exposing posters' addresses to
spammers. We encourage all RootsWeb listowners to visit the
Archiver and then include their lists in the archives.
The next step is to start making old list messages available.
Thanks to Marc Nozell for implementing the threaded archives.It's great
work.