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
It's summertime for those of us in the northern hemisphere, and for many, summer means vacations. And lots of time, vacations mean e-mails piling up in inboxes, and automated message replies to e-mails from computers at work, etc. Unfortunately, full inboxes and automated messages also end up in your being unsubscribed from your Rootsweb mailing lists. This week's Rootsweb Review has some great hints and tips for those of you going on vacation so you'll still be subscribed to your mailing lists when you return. (By the way, the Rootsweb Review is a free weekly e-mail you can subscribe to. Just go to http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/ and follow the directions to subscribe.)
Cheers!
Juli Morgan
CLAIRDAY Mailing List Administrator
CLAIRDAY-admin(a)rootsweb.com
Previously published in RootsWeb Review: 16 June 2004, Vol. 7, No. 24.
RootsWeb Mailing Lists -- Gone Fishing?
"Summertime and the livin' is easy" is how the familiar song from "Porgy
and Bess" goes. For RootsWeb users in the Northern Hemisphere, summer is
nearly here and that often brings with it vacations (holidays), long
weekend fishing trips, beach house visits or trips to the cabin in the
mountains. All of which means time away from genealogical research, time
away from your computer and your e-mail. What should you do when you are
going to be away temporarily from your RootsWeb mailing lists?
Depending upon the length of time you will be away, the capacity of your
mailbox, and the activity level of the lists to which you subscribe; you
may choose either to remain subscribed to the lists and catch up on your
mail when you return or unsubscribe (especially from the busiest high-
volume lists) and re-subscribe when you get home. RootsWeb list software
does not have a temporary "NO-MAIL" setting. However, unsubscribing and
re-subscribing is easy and will accomplish the purpose.
If you choose to unsubscribe from all, or just some, RootsWeb mailing
lists during your vacation, first check Password Central to verify to
which lists you are subscribed.
http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/
Once you obtain a list of your subscribed lists, address a new e-mail
message to the list "request" addresses for the lists from which you
wish to unsub. The "request" address is used to send your command or
instructions that can either unsubscribe or subscribe you from a list.
The format for addressing a message to the request address is:
LISTNAME-L-request(a)rootsweb.com
--if you are subscribed in mail mode (receiving every individual message
list members send to the list) or
LISTNAME-D-request(a)rootsweb.com
--if you are subscribed in digest mode (receiving list messages lumped
together in digest format).
Replace the generic word LISTNAME above with the actual name of the
list. For instance, if you wish to unsubscribe from the SMITH surname
list and you are subscribed in mail mode, send your request to:
SMITH-L-request(a)rootsweb.com or SMITH-D-request(a)rootsweb.com to
unsubscribe from the digests.
Be sure to put the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject and message body of
your e-mail and don't include any other text. If you wish to
unsubscribe from more than one list at the same time, you can show
multiple "request" addresses in the SEND TO box of your e-mail with the
addresses separated by a comma just as you would if you were sending an
e-mail to several individuals at one time.
Keep a record of the mailing list names for the lists from which you
have unsubbed so that you can easily address a new e-mail to the same
list request addresses when you return with the word SUBSCRIBE in the
subject and message body to get back on the lists you temporarily left.
Note: Never send a REPLY e-mail to subscribe to, or unsubscribe from, a
list -- always send a NEW e-mail.
Upon your return from summer fun, you can browse the archives of your
mailing lists to catch up on the messages you missed. Start here:
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/
Type in the name of the list you wish to browse and then select the
month and year to view an outline of the messages you wish to read.
Next, click to view any or all individual messages.
So, if the fish are biting this summer or the seashore looks inviting,
leave the laptop at home and don't worry about the "the big one" getting
away because you are not home to view responses to your genealogical
research queries. You can catch up with mailing list messages when you
return.