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 old search engine for the Mailing List Archives at Rootsweb
has been replaced by a new one. There is no longer a page for
each Mailing List; instead, there is ONE page, where you can type
in the name of the Mailing List in the search window. Here's how
to get to the proper page at Rootsweb:
Log on to Rootsweb:
<http://www.rootsweb.com>
Under "SEARCH ENGINES & DATABASES", click:
"INDEX OF ALL SEARCH ENGINES AND DATA BASES "
Under "OUR MOST POPULAR SEARCHABLE INDEXES:", click:
"ARCHIVER SEARCH"
(Or, you can go directly to the search engine at:
<http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search>)
Click on the "ADVANCED" Tab. You MUST do this! If you do
a search from the "KEYWORD" Tab, you will get hits from every
Mailing List at Rootsweb. (You will get MILLIONS of hits!)
Unless you want EVERY email ever posted to a specific List, you
need to choose a date in the last box.
This new Archiver Search engine takes a little getting used to,
but it really works better and faster than the old one.
Example of how cool this new search engine is do the following
search:
Body: (Leave blank)
Subject: Ludwig Fischer
From: (Leave blank)
List: (The actual name of the List, e.g. Germanna_Colonies, Broyles,
Klug, Claar, etc.)
Date: (You can select a day: 12 Mar 2007
A month: Mar 2007
A year: 2007
(Or leave blank for ALL hits. You don't want to do this.)
Just thought some of you might become confused if you tried
to use the old way to do an Interactive Search.
Regards,
Sarge
Just a note to inform everyone that the Anti-SPAM filters at
Rootsweb have really been tightened up. There was just too
much SPAM being posted and it was working List administrators
to death trying to keep up with it.
Some users have observed that their posts never showed up
in Lists, and I, as administrator, never saw them either. The
reason for that is that with the tightening of the rules, NO
posts containing HTML (Styled Text, Fancy Text, Colors,
Bolding, Underlining, Sizes, Tabs, Bullets, Forms, Tables,
etc., etc.) will be posted (as usual). The posters won't receive
any notification, and neither will the List Administrator. The
posts containing HTML will just disappear into the ether.
Only "PLAIN TEXT" emails will be posted, so make sure
that you have your email program set to that setting. To be
on the safe side, do not include ANY kind of tags at the end
of your posts, no "Signatures", no long lists of surnames
being researched, etc. If you feel you MUST have some
sort of tagline, Rootsweb requires you have no more than
3 lines. IMHO, those long, long lists of surnames are a
waste of time, usually. And, including your place of
employment, duty title, address, phone number, etc., is
absolutely unnecessary.
Let's try to keep the Lists "lean and mean", and this means
"snipping" out all unnecessary text from the body of an
email when you are replying. Quote back just enough of
the original message to make it clear to what you are
replying.
Thanks,
Sarge
List Administrator