The following is from:
Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
Vol. 3 No. 45 - November 7, 1998
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- Who Is The "Best of the Web"?
Which site is the "best genealogy site on the World Wide Web?" Do
you have an opinion? If so, you can make your opinion heard.
Once again you have the opportunity to honor a genealogy Web site
with a "Readers' Choice Award" to be issued by this newsletter.
The readers of this newsletter will pick the site to be named
"Best Genealogy Site on the World Wide Web." This will be the
second year that the readers of this newsletter have conferred
such an award. I won't mention who won the award last year, as I
don't want to influence this year's nominations. However, if you
really want to know, you can read last year's contest results in
the past issues of this newsletter. They are stored on Ancestry's
Web site.
What guidelines are used to define the "best genealogy site on the
World Wide Web?" That is strictly up to you. You can nominate a
site because it is interesting or because it has nice graphics or
because it has excellent maps or because it is full of valuable
genealogy reference materials. I would suggest that you should
nominate a site because it is the one genealogy Web site that you
go back and visit time and time again. However, even that
guideline is optional. The choice is yours to make. When you cast
your vote, you might write a couple of sentences about why you
think this site is best, although that description is not
absolutely required.
I have set up an "electronic voting machine" that you can use to
cast a vote for this "best of the Web" award. The voting machine
will tabulate the results, and I will announce them in the
November 28 newsletter. The winning World Wide Web site will then
be allowed to mention the award on that site. That Web site also
will be entitled to all the fame and notoriety that is included
with this Online Genealogy Newsletter's Readers' Choice Award.
Enough said!
To cast your vote, you must follow the following instructions
EXACTLY. A computer is tabulating the results, not a human being.
Therefore, you must enter your vote in exactly the proper format.
To cast a vote for "Best Genealogy Site on the World Wide Web,"
send an email to:
bestsite(a)rootscomputing.com
The subject of the message must contain the full Web site address
and nothing else. The message subject (some e-mail programs will
say "Message Title") MUST start with:
http://
For instance, any of the following would be proper message
subjects:
http://www.ancestry.com
http://www.rootscomputing.com
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/roots/
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dsucha/schuetz.html
http://ynot.netgrp.net/~tursky/
Please list the exact address in the message subject, but do not
add any other words. Do not say, "My vote is..." or anything like
that in the subject; simply list the actual URL beginning with the
letters "http://". None of the following three examples will work.
None of them begin with "http://" and therefore the computer
program that tabulates the vote will ignore them:
www.rootscomputing.com
My vote is for
ancestry.com
My favorite Web site
If you do not send your vote to the right e-mail address or if you
do not use the proper message subject, your e-mail will disappear
into the Internet dark hole and will not be counted. If you do
send it properly, you will receive a reply acknowledging the
receipt of your nomination.
You do have the option of writing descriptive text in the body of
the e-mail. The automatic vote tally software will ignore the body
text. However, once the votes are tallied, a human will read all
the messages that nominated the winning site and will look for any
comments about that site. Some of those comments may be published
in the November 28 newsletter. By writing text in the message
body, you are giving permission to reprint your comments in this
newsletter. If you do not want your words or name published,
please do not write anything in the message body.
Only one vote per person is allowed. All votes must be received on
or before November 24, 1998. Again, do not send your vote to my e-
mail address or to the address that sends this newsletter. You
must send your vote to:
bestsite(a)rootscomputing.com
OK, which site is "the best genealogy site on the Web?"
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