Dear List Members,
Here it is the first of July and I am late in sending you the Second
Quarterly Report. I was in Maryland and Delaware enjoying three of my
children their spouses and five of my grandchildren for the 4th of
July. Due to the lateness of this report I am not going to send the
individual numbers of members for each of the lists I take care of. It
is an all day job. If any of you really want to know how many are on
your list, just e-mail me at KathleenBurnett(a)earthlink.net and ask. Be
sure and let me know what list you are asking about.
If you are interested in knowing about other mailing list out there, one
of the very best
inventories of genealogical mailing lists is John Fullers Genealogy
Resources on the
Internet located at
http://www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail.html
If you ever need to unsubscribe from this list or any rootsweb list all
you need to do is
visit Password Central located at
http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/
Follow the
instructions and you will received an e-mail of all lists you belong to
and from it you
can unsubscribe from the ones you want to. Always know that I will be
more than
happy to help you if you are having problems unsubscribing, you only
need to ask. Please
send this request to KathleenBurnett(a)earthlink.net not to the entire
list.
If you would like to visit the Archived messages of this list, go to
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ and type in the name of the list you would
like to
search and from there you can search by dates.
There are a few items I would like to suggest for the benefit of each of
us.
1. When sending a posting to the list it would help if you would put
the subject of your posting in the subject line. Doing this also might
give you a better chance to attract the attention of someone who has the
information you are looking for or the attention of someone who is
searching for the information you are posting. Many members are on many
many lists and when they see a subject line that reads "My Ancestors"
they just delete it.
2. If someone posts a message to the list that should not have been
posted, please just
delete it. Know that I am taking care of the problem. If you post your
unhappiness,
then you just continue on the problem. I know it is hard when your
heart has been
offended, but for my sake, and the sake of the list, please just delete
it. Rootsweb has a
wonderful Spam Detective and it stops most of it. You should see what
comes across
my screen. I have to look at each of them to make sure that what was
stopped was
truly Spam. Once in a while, one slips by though and if this happens,
just delete it and
go on with what we all love, genealogical research.
3. Please remember to delete the tags and un-needed words when you
re-send a
message to the list with your answer. If you don't check this, your
responses can
become quite large and may cause problems with some of our member's
servers. This
member who might not be able to receive your message because of its
size, just might be your long lost second cousin with all the answers
you are looking
for.
4. The wonderful relationship that develops between list members is
also one of a
Mailing Lists Problems. I encourage you to respond to the entire list
with
genealogical responses, you never know who your response will help. In
the same
thought I would like to ask you to not respond to the entire list with
personal
responses. Such as, the first message from a member says "Happy
Birthday Mary" and
then Mary says "Thank you and then about 60 of our members also send
"Happy
Birthday Mary". This is what I mean by personal messages. Just keep in
mind
anything is ok to be posted as long as it has to do with the subject of
the list. I know there are exceptions to most rules including this
one. If you have a doubt ask me. KathleenBurnett(a)earthlink.net
5. Remember to keep your Virus protection up to date and never open any
attached
file unless you are 100% sure what it is and even then you are taking a
chance.
6. Now the hardest thing is when one of our own, a fellow member becomes
upset about a posting, something I have done or not done. It is so hard
not to jump in and add our two cents.
I want you to know how much I appreciate it when you just let these
posting go by and delete them. Know that I am behind the scenes taking
care of the problem. If you ever have a concern that I might have
missed a message that needs addressed you are welcome to contact me
during the day at Kathleen.burnett(a)era.com or in the evenings at
KathleenBurnett(a)earthlink.net.
Please remember, so that this list is better for each of us, the posting
of virus warnings,
test messages, chain letters, political announcements, current events,
items for sale,
personal messages, flames, etc., in other words Spam is NOT ALLOWED and
will be
grounds for removal. Consideration for exceptions, contact
me at KathleenBurnett(a)earthlink.net
I want to thank each of you for your continued support of me and your
willingness to
help make this list the success it is. It is your list and is here for
your benefit. If you have suggestions or comments you would like in
future reports, you only need to send them to me.
Kathleen Burnett
List Mom
KathleenBurnett(a)earthlink.net