Dear List Members,
As noted before, there have been some big changes with the RootsWeb message boards.
Where before the changes, we could tell who was sending the post and know who to contact
with personal information, now there is no way to do this without some indepth research.
The board is still gatewayed to the mailing list so the posts get there, but the
poster's email address does not come through to the mailing list, leaving us with an
anonymous post and a email address of gc-gateway(a)rootsweb.com. If you click reply from the
list, your message will be returned to you "unable to send".
The BEST way to deal with gatewayed posts is to click on (or copy and paste if
you're on AOL) the URL in the message, going to the board where the message comes
from, and respond there. That way, the original poster gets the reply, and so do those
who only use the board, and also the mailing list members. Everyone wins that way, and
it's not a big deal for us to do. If you just click on reply to a list message, you
don't get to the original poster, you only get to the mailing list members, and if the
post didn't come from the list, what good will it do to the person who needs that
answer?
Thanks for reading..........
Carlette
carlette(a)mail.com