Dear List Members,
The First Quarterly Report for 2002 is going to be just a little
different than the one I usually send to the Mailing Lists I take care
of.
I tore my Rotator Cuff in November of last year and I find that I
cannot spend long hours typing on the computer during the healing
process, therefore I am going to send out one message to all of my lists
and skip posting the membership numbers this time. I promise to get
back to our normal reporting next quarter. Typing over 200 messages is
just more than this shoulder and arm can take.
There are a few items I would like to suggest for the benefit of each of
us.
1. 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.
2. If you would put the subject of your posting in the subject line it
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.
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. 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. If you do notice that one of our members has a virus,
please do not post their name and e-mail address across the list. Let
me know and I will take care of the problem. Most likely the member
already knows and is in a major state of stress. Receiving messages of
each of us will only cause his or her stress level to rise.
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 receive 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.
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.
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.
Kathleen Burnett
List Mom
KathleenBurnett(a)earthlink.net