If that mail list is on Rootsweb, I don't believe you can delete it, or
get rid of it. It will be there forever. You don't have to mention the
list on your county web site, though.
I can't get a mail list called NCROWAN-L because someone ordered one for
NCROWEN-L and Rootsweb doesn't delete mail lists. (LOL)
David
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 WLGreene1(a)aol.com wrote:
I had been looking for a volunteer to take over the Loudoun County
Mail List
ever since I became county coordinator a few months ago. I contacted the
previous county coordinator Sue Beach and told her of my plans to discontinue
the list and she had informed me that the list was not very active when she
had it. She said it had declined in its use in recent years. I have a
cousin who is subscribed to the list and she told also told me the same thing
that she never seen any activity on it the whole time she had been subscribed
to it. I put up an advertisement on the Loudoun County web page asking for a
volunteer to take over the list but it seemed like nobody was paying any
attention to the notice. So I changed the wording of the advertisement and
said I would discontinue the list after January 1st, 2000 and I asked people
to contact me if they had any questions about it. I figured this was OK to
do since there was no activity on the list. I had plans to contact members
on the list about a volunteer but I didn't notify them right away. A month
goes by and not one person contacted me about the list. One day out of the
blue, I get this angry email from a list member demanding to know why I'm
getting rid of the mail list. I discovered that when I put up the notice to
discontinue the list, the list became alive with a flurry of activity
gossiping about me getting rid of the list. My cousin told me that she had
never seen the list so "shook up" and that I had caused the most activity she
had ever seen on it. I explained my situation to this person as pleasantly
as I could and defended my reasons for getting rid of the list. The good
news is this person is now the new mail list owner. Now I'm waiting for the
list to calm down and go back to the same state it was in before this whole
thing got started. I guess the only time people show their appreciation is
when they think they are going to lose something. It seems to me that being
a USGenWeb volunteer can be a thankless job sometimes.
I wanted to let others coordinators know what to expect from list members if
they have plans to get rid of their lists. If I had it to do this all over
again, I would have done it differently.
Thanks,
Wayne Greene
Loudoun County Coordinator
dmorgan(a)efn.org David W. Morgan Honolulu Hawaii
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm
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