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 some of you may be aware, a few months ago a number of Internet Service
Providers, such as AOL and Yahoo, changed the way that they process
incoming email. This change rejected any email coming from any mailing
list that had put the submitter's email address in the "From" field,
because the "real" originator of the message was the list itself. (The
purpose of the change was to reduce spamming by
people faking the "From" field.) Rootsweb has now changed their from field
to comply with the AOL change. Depending on how your list is configured,
this may change how reply and reply to all works. It should stop users from
bouncing off the list(s) due to rejected mail be some ISP's, and allow mail
to be delivered by those ISP's..
Regards, Fred