One way to stop posts is to but an email on the block list.
I have on occasion added people to my block list, in order to keep people
off the list.
I don't know the rules concerning blocking ancestry emails, but I would
suspect with the amount they send out at one time(most people would call it
spam) it would be a while before they realize they were on the block list.
Debie, you may want to do the same with the email address from the guy that
is giving you trouble. It is worth a shot anyway.
Ellen-
Waukesha County
From: Debie & Joe <sebring(a)excel.net>
Reply-To: WIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
To: WIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [WIGEN-L] No more about ads
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 08:41:49 -0600
Hi Rita,
I am not sure if I should be replying or not. I am not sure if it
upsets you that people are asking for other people's DNA or that they are
doing this on a mailing list. The message we received on the mailing list
last night, I kind of took that you were letting people know how personal
DNA is. I agree with you, please don't get me wrong. However there is more
that would need to be worried about. With people digging through the trash
these days, alot of DNA can be obtained from a persons garbage. The hair
removed from a comb or brush, the napkin we used at dinner time or the
paper towel used to dry ones hands. Even down to the band-aid used to cover
a cut. I would like to believe, although I am most likely in a dream world,
that people wouldn't search through my garbage. On the other hand we still
have the mystery of the missing whole bag of garbage with the turkey bones
in it, but that's another story. <G>
Today I am reading, maybe being a little more awake, that you
aren't happy about Ancestry / Rootsweb becoming a selling point, other then
banners. With the new system we are using now, the board managers don't
have much control. Try to delete a posting because you know the person is
only bringing up someone elses hopes, but no research will ever be done.
You can't remove them as you use to be able to. Even if by some miracle you
go through the speel of removing the posting, by this point it is already
on the mailing list, if the message board is gatewayed. As the caretaker of
my county boards, mailing lists, etc. I don't have any control of what is
posted on the boards and with my boards being gatewayed to the mailing
list, I can't stop that message from coming through either. Even if you
have a person on the no accept list, if he posts to the boards, the gateway
sends it through, therefore the mailing list doesn't see it and won't stop
it. Right now I have a guy who is offering all sorts of look-ups and work
done for researchers. I thought at first this guy was great, then =I=
started to receive all kinds of complaints because the guy didn't answer
his e-mail, others say the e-mail is bad. I have no way of stopping him
from posting to the boards, which goes to the mailing list and in the end I
get the screaming letters from people asking me what kind of people I have
helping me, why I am allowing this to happen, etc. The researchers have no
idea I can't stop this.
I hope this helps some, I can read your frustration in your
letters and by this mornings post, I am hoping your not saying people have
answered you in a nasty way from this mailing list, I have to admit, I
didn't see any, but they could have done private also.
Many things changed when Ancestry came in, as we expected, well
the ones who have been here since the project began anyway. Some for the
better and much for the neutral and also a bit for the worse. The lack of
control of the boards are part of the worse.
Have a Happy Easter,
Debie Blindauer
Calumet & Sheboygan
At 09:22 AM 3/30/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Well, I am certainly getting mixed messages here from the Rootsweb and
>affiliated folks about my complaint regarding ads using message boards
>address
>lists and concerns about who has control/access over DNA test results (not
>the
>value of DNA testing), but I am being told mostly to just shut up, so I
>will
>make no more of it. Back to my cave. Rita
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