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-----------------------------------------From: "Jim Jackson"
To: chumley(a)rootsweb.com
Cc:
Sent: Monday January 13 2020 3:21:17PM
Subject: [CHUMLEY] Notice about Rootsweb Lists
This has been received from the Rootsweb administration:
Beginning March 2nd, 2020 the Mailing Lists functionality on RootsWeb
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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
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This has been received from the Rootsweb administration:
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.
As an alternative to RootsWeb Mailing Lists, Ancestry message boards are a
great option to network with others in the genealogy community. Message
boards are available for free with an Ancestry registered account.
Thank you for being part of the RootsWeb family and contributing to this
community.
Sincerely,
The RootsWeb team
We are presently setting up email groups at https://groups.io/. If there is
interest in migrating this list to groups.io please respond to this message
to that effect ASAP.
With heavy hearts,
Jim and Di