Beginning March 2nd, 2020 the Mailing Lists functionality on RootsWeb will be discontinued. Users will no longer be able to send outgoing emails or accept incoming emails. Additionally, administration tools will no longer be available to list administrators and mailing lists will be put into an archival state.
Administrators may save the emails in their list prior to March 2nd. After that, mailing list archives will remain available and searchable on RootsWeb
The following is a message regarding Rootsweb that Ted Hitt allowed me
to copy from his listserv. It regards supporting Rootsweb by becoming
a member.
Joining Rootsweb is purely voluntary. You do *not* have to join to continue
participating in the listservs.
The following is an excerpt from the Rootsweb site at:
http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe./html
How to Join the Cooperative
About RootsWeb's funding.
Personal Memberships.
Professional and Corporate Memberships.
How to Join by Mail.
How to Join Over The Net with a Credit Card.
The RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative is entirely supported by its
users: no government agency or private business subsidizes our operations.
By becoming a Member, Sponsor, or Donor, your support of RootsWeb
is helping us provide Web and FTP space to thousands of genealogical
activites, mailing lists for thousands of groups of genealogists with
shared
interests, and search engines to make more than 4 billion bytes of
genealogical data (the equivalent of 2 million printed pages!) freely
available to Internet genealogists.
Personal Memberships
Individual users may join the Cooperative at any of four different
levels of support. While there are some differences in the services
we provide at each level, fundamentally when you choose a level
you're making a choice about what kind of genealogical resources
you want to see brought onto the Internet. If you choose to be a
Nonmember, you're basically saying "Let someone else do it."
Members, Sponsors, and Donors are all saying
"Let's each contribute something towards making
more genealogical resources available to everyone on the Internet."
Nonmember (free)
Web searches of all databases (possibly with automated,
hopefully-guilt-inducing nags that you really should join (-8 ).
Mailing lists in digest and index mode, and mail mode for small
lists (possibly with nags).
Archive file retrieval by FTP and mail (possibly with nags).
Member ($12 per year)
A warm fuzzy from knowing you're roughly covering RootsWeb's costs
in serving you (plus no annoying nags! (-8 ).
All mailing lists available in digest, index, and mail mode.
Archive text searches.
Sponsor ($24 per year)
An even bigger warm fuzzy because you're contributing something
towards bringing new databases and services online.
Ability to surname search all files simultaneously with the
RootsWeb site index. (21 Dec 97: This feature is not available
yet.)
Automatic notification of new files containing your surnames.
Mailing list ownership.
High-speed high-reliability genealogy newsfeed direct to your ISP.
(Note: This requires cooperation from your
sysadmin.)
Sponsor Plus Services
21 Dec 97: Personal Web space and Web serving of GEDCOMs is not
available now, but in the near future we will be
providing space to Sponsors at a nominal additional cost.
Donor ($100 per year or more)
A huge warm fuzzy because your contribution has a direct impact on
RootsWeb's operations. By itself, a Donor's
contribution can buy a new dataset or a new disk drive for everyone
to use.
All of the Sponsors' benefits.
Guided tours of RootsWeb (well, at least some folks like to see the
hardware (-8 ) if you're ever in our neighborhood.
Other special services as seem appropriate.
Please note that some member services depend on the availability of
programmer time, and there may be some delays in
providing those services.
Professional and Corporate Memberships
RootsWeb does offer Professional memberships to genealogists who wish to
use RootsWeb while doing research for hire, and
we offer Corporate memberships to businesses who would like to support
RootsWeb. Various specialized services are
available to Professional and Corporate members: contact us for details.
How to Join by Mail
One way to join RootsWeb is by sending a check in American dollars to:
RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative
P.O. Box 6798
Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798
Please make sure your name and e-mail address are on the check!
Also, please don't send currency, and please don't send drafts
denominated in foreign currency. (American banks charge
*huge* fees for currency conversions.) If you are outside the United
States, please use a credit card so the currency adjustment
is automatic and inexpensive.
How to Join Over The Net with a Credit Card
You can join easily from your keyboard by using our Secure Server Web
form and your VISA or Mastercard.
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Jennifer Dorner, list administrator
jdorner(a)MCI2000.com
Subscribers,
I apologize for the spam that showed up on the DORNER and CHRANE lists.
The Dorner list is closed, so I'm not sure how that got spammed, but I had
not
closed the Chrane list. That is now corrected.
I wanted to pass on this information about the USGenWeb Project that I
received. I am not associated with this endeavor, but I have accessed the
site and think it is a valuable resource.
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There has been a recent change in the main internet address for The
USGenWeb Project. The project has learned that individuals associated
with the server where our main URL was housed have formed a corporation,
USGenWeb, Inc. Since The USGenWeb Project was founded on the belief of
"free access for all," we are concerned there may be public confusion
about the relationship between this for-profit corporation and The USGenWeb
Project. As a result we have removed our presence from that server.
Please be sure to change your bookmarks for The USGenWeb Project. We
can be accessed through either of the following URLs:
http://www.usgenweb.nethttp://www.usgenweb.org
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Megan Zurawicz, National Coordinator, The USGenWeb Project
The Advisory Board, The USGenWeb Project
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Jennifer Dorner, your list administrator
jdorner(a)MCI2000.com