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
Please remember to visit www.rootsweb.com HELP page when in doubt of a lists
function or your subscription to a list.
Bright Blessings
Sandie
List Administrator
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MSN Messenger - Fedelmar
ICQ - Fedelmar (201309494)
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Pride is one thing ... bigotry is another !!!!
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PLEASE READ THIS AS IT CONTAINS IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING THE FUNCTION
OF THE MAILING LIST.
Bright Blessings
Sandie
List Administrator
Family history researchers, who are often addicted to their daily
"fix" of mail from their favorite RootsWeb lists, began sending e-mails
to their lists in an attempt to ascertain whether or not the lists were
working, for some, alarm set in.
Don't panic if RootsWeb's list mail doesn't appear to be reaching your
mailbox as it normally should. Instead, do the following:
1. Check the HelpDesk's yellow announcement box for news of any
technical problems at RootsWeb or with your ISP's delivery of list mail
from RootsWeb. http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/
or click on HELP tab at the top of any RootsWeb page.
2. Check your currently subscribed lists here:
http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/
or click on the PASSWORDS tab at the top of any RootsWeb page.
3. Check the threaded mailing list archives to view the current
month/year messages for your lists at:
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/
4. Contact the list administrator for help or information by writing to:
LISTNAME-admin(a)rootsweb.com (replace the word LISTNAME with the actual
name of the list -- using no -L or -D). NOTE: If there is a general
problem involving RootsWeb mail delivery to a specific ISP and the list
administrator to whom you are writing also uses the same ISP, he/she
probably will not receive your inquiry for the duration of the problem
with that ISP.
5. Contact your ISP's tech support representative and explain that
RootsWeb list mail is not spam and this is e-mail you wish to receive.
Enlist the support of your ISP in resolving the matter. Internet Service
Providers should be more than willing to assist you -- their paying
customer -- so that you are able to receive the mail you want.
Here is what NOT to do if you suspect you are not receiving your mailing
list messages:
1. Do not send repeated messages to the list asking if the list is
working or if anyone has received your message.
2. Do not send any "TESTING" messages to a list.
Remember that just because you are not receiving a message you have sent
to the list doesn't mean that other list subscribers are not seeing your
repeated messages and becoming annoyed by them. The mailing lists are
for genealogical research for a specific subject and not for test
messages. Use the above guidelines instead to help resolve any non-
receipt of mail problems.
You will find guidelines concerning non-receipt of RootsWeb list mail in
a recent issue of the RootsWeb Review. You might want to print out this
information and save for handy reference.
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/20040107.txt
Permission to reprint articles from RootsWeb Review is granted unless
specifically stated otherwise, provided: (1) the reprint is used for
non-commercial, educational purposes; and (2) the following notice
appears at the end of the article: Previously published in RootsWeb
Review: Vol. 7, No. 5, 4 February 2004.
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MSN Messenger - Fedelmar
ICQ - Fedelmar (201309494)
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Pride is one thing ... bigotry is another !!!!
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The message below is from the current Rootsweb.com Review. Please read it
as it will help explain some of the mailing list 'malfunctions' and why they
happen.
Bright Blessings
Sandie
List Administrator
1. NEWS AND NOTES. 1a. RootsWeb Mailing List Messages: Seeing Double?
RootsWeb mailing list subscribers report from time to time that
they are receiving duplicates or multiples of list messages. Should
this happen to you, keep the following items in mind.
If the list administrator has set the list software to direct replies to
the individual poster rather than to the list or if an individual
poster has a specific REPLY TO setting in his e-mail program, replies
are frequently directed to both the poster and the list -- resulting in
two copies of the reply for the original poster. This is normal --
delete the extra copy of a reply to your message.
If you are receiving duplicate copies of ALL mail coming from a list or
lists, it is possible that you are subscribed to the list(s) more than
once under different addresses. List software checks for exact duplicate
subscriptions and will not send out two copies of list mail if the exact
same address is subscribed more than once to a list. However, the
software is unable detect variant address such as susie(a)isp.net and
susie(a)mail.isp.net. Additionally, if you resubscribed to a list after
changing service providers but failed to unsubscribe your old obsolete
address; it is possible that your old ISP is continuing to forward your
list mail to your new address in addition to your current provider
delivering mail to you.
If you suspect that either of the above situations might be the culprit
in your duplicate mail problem, contact the list administrator privately
and explain what is happening. Ask the administrator to check the
subscriber list and remove the old or variant, address. Include in your
message any e-mail addresses under which you might be subscribed to the
list. You can contact any list administrator by writing to:
LISTNAME-admin(a)rootsweb.com
replacing the generic word LISTNAME with the actual name of the list
(no -L or -D).
Under no circumstance should you post a message ON the list about your
duplicate problem or ask other list members if they, too, are receiving
duplicates. List mail is only sent out from RootsWeb one time and even
if some others on the list are receiving duplicates it is unlikely that
the cause of their problem is the same as yours as there are numerous
possible causes for this phenomenon. Moreover, your fellow list members
cannot help you resolve your specific duplicate problem -- only the list
administrator can do so, or can direct you to the proper place to
receive help.
When contacting the list administrator for help, include BOTH copies of
ONE duplicate message (the SAME message) that you have recently received
from the list and include full, expanded headers for BOTH copies of the
message. If you don't know how to expand headers, see this page:
http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/listadmins/headersfull.html
You will find instructions for most popular e-mail programs here.
Most duplicate mail problems, other than those described above, result
from issues on the receiving end at your ISP -- usually connectivity or
download problems with your mail, or issues related to your e-mail
client revolving around filtering or corrupted files. Some ISPs permit
mail to be left on the server and this can result in duplicate downloads
of the same messages. In any of these cases, only your ISP tech support
can help you.
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MSN Messenger - Fedelmar
ICQ - Fedelmar (201309494)
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Pride is one thing ... bigotry is another !!!!
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