There has been a lack of traffic on the CMN-L list recently, this is mainly
because the listers are not active.
No one is discriminating against anyone or trying to pressurise anyone to do
or join anything on this list.
The main problem with Rootsweb mailing lists at this time is Rootsweb itself
[and
Ancestry.com]
Rootsweb are bouncing everything and knocking everyone off the list several
times daily, including Pauline.
The new NON- MEMBERS list on British-Genealogy.co.uk called
WLS-Carmarthenshire was seven or eight months ago, because
Ancestry.com and
other web crawlers were harvesting listers e-mail addresses from the lists
public archives and selling them on, thus the increase in SPAM.
The British Genealogy mailing lists are private archives avaliable only to
subscribers, thus these harvesters can not harveset addresses.
Carmarthenshire FHS moved from Rootsweb mailing lists at the beginning of
2004, to British Genealogy, none of the mebers on that list are harvested
and sold on, and the list archives are available only to members.
Rootsweb lists are suffering for this reason, just look at the archives on
other county list, checkout the falling number of mailings each month.
In June Carmarthenshire-L had 97 list messages, Dyfed had 69, who is
pressurising Dyfed list members?
Carmarthenshire Researchers have a choice of several lists and have show
which they prefer.
Richard James
----- Original Message -----
From: <DBell7246(a)aol.com>
To: <CARMARTHENSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 4:07 AM
Subject: [Cmn-L] Activity, or lack of it
Lately, it does seem to be a waste of time to subscribe to the CMN
list,
especially now that I read that the "real" activity is on the members-only
list.
Not everyone who subscribes to this list can afford to join every FHS
in
every
county and every country from which their ancestors originated, and
it
seems
a little unfair to try to pressure us to do so if we want to receive
list
messages. After belonging for several years, I'm very disappointed in
this
new
philosophy. As an American with a very diverse ancestral background,
I
feel
like you're discrimating against me and others like me. Enough
said. You
won't
hear from me again.
Darla
The Woodlands, TX
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