Sorry, but I must be brain dead. How do I request mailing
lists for my Virginia (James City & Surry)county pages? Do
I ask at Rootsweb?
Thanks,
Eve S. Gregory
Virginia Foundation for Archaeological Research, Inc.
egregory(a)techcom.net
Subject: Re: [STATE-COORD-L] county-specific rootsweb lists
Resent-Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:19:26 -0700 (PDT)
Resent-From: STATE-COORD-L(a)rootsweb.com
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:20:44 -0700
From: Brian Leverich <leverich(a)rootsweb.com>
To: STATE-COORD-L(a)rootsweb.com
>From: ncgen(a)mindspring.com (Elizabeth Harris)
>
> Could somebody clarify USGW and rootsweb policy on county-specific
> lists for me, please? Specifically, can *anyone* set up a rootsweb
> list for a county, without prior communication with the CC for that
> county? And if not, where are the safeguards to ensure that this
> does not happen? (It just did, which is why I'm asking).
There are *NO* safeguards.
That's the reason I keep telling State Coordinators that they ought
to recommend that their CCs request their lists *now*.
If a CC doesn't ask for a list and a RootsWeb Sponsor does, RootsWeb
will issue the list to the Sponsor. It's completely first-come,
first-served.
BTW, mailing lists are a pretty cool addition to a county page. Not
only do they build a community around the county Website and keep
people coming back, you can do other neat things with them. For
example as was just discussed over on listowners(a)rootsweb.com, any
CC can put a search engine for their mailing list archives right on
their own county page. It's just a single line of HTML.
PLEASE, PLEASE pass the word along to your county coordinators that
county mailing lists at RootsWeb are free and easy to maintain. And
that RootsWeb Sponsors are volunteering to host the lists that CCs
haven't requested and, once a list is gone, it's gone. -B
--
Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L
RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative
http://www.rootsweb.com/
P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 leverich(a)rootsweb.com