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
I will be gone on vacation for two weeks and will be checking my mail
only sporadically. This should not make any difference to the
operation of the lists, but if you have any trouble and email me
directly at jdorner(a)mci2000.com, I probably won't respond right away.
I also wanted to mention that these lists are set so that if they
received over a certain number of bounced messages from a mailbox,
they automatically unsubscribe that mailbox. Bounced messages would
likely occur if the subscribers ISP was experiencing difficulties, if
someone subscribed with the wrong address, or if their mailbox is too
full, among other reasons.
So if you are ever unsubscribed involuntarily, don't take it
personally. I wouldn't unsubscribe anyone myself unless they were
spamming or doing other types of abusive behavior. If you haven't
received a personal message from me, then assume you were unsubscribed
by the software and just re-subscribe.
Jennifer Dorner
jdorner(a)mci2000.com
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Jennifer Dorner
jdorner(a)mci2000.com
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DO YOU YAHOO!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Brian Leverich sent this message to all the LISTOWNERS
and I am passing it on for your information.
[ This is a public announcement -- it may be forwarded to any
appropriate audience. -B ]
The new search engine server is now online and can operate at the
speed of a full T1 connection.
Courtesy of hacks by Dale Schneider, you can search the USGenWeb
Archives, now with *headlines* and *updated* to within the last 24
hours, at:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ussearch.htm
Courtesy of hacks by Karen Isaacson, you can search the archives of
any mailing list (except those withdrawn by the listowner), now with
nicer *formats* and *updated* to within the last 24 hours, at:
http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl
I'd also like to explicitly thank the folks who provided the
resources that have made this new facility possible:
o RootsWeb's Patrons, Donors, Sponsors, and Members.
o Palladium Interactive, developers of the Ultimate
Family Tree software for genealogists.
Folks interested in helping RootsWeb provide new facilities can
become Members by using the Web form at:
http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html
By the way, the next server we'll be bringing online will be a box
dedicated to supporting Marc Nozell's HTMLized versions of the
mailing list archives. We should have that box online within 48
hours, though it's reasonable to expect Marc to need a little time
after that to get his software installed. (:
Projects after that include a dedicated IRC server, upgrading the
mail hub, upgrading the main Web server, building a NT-based
FrontPage server, bringing a "dirtylists" list server online, and
bringing a third ordinary list server online.
[ The "dirtylists" server is for the big, rarely used announcement
lists. We've developed a number of those things with 5,000 to
300,000 subscribers, and every time a post drops we kick the
daylights out of the list server with hundreds or even thousands of
bounces. We need a specially tuned box to handle these turkeys. ]
[end forwarded message]
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Jennifer Dorner
List administrator
jdorner(a)MCI2000.com