----- Original Message ----- From: "C W Kerr" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 7:21 PM Subject: Fw: The new list > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: David Wares <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 4:47 PM > Subject: The new list > > > > Cliff, > > My concerns are: > > 1. What is wrong with the other 3 lists? The Genanz does have some off > > topic stuff, but that is to be expected in a list linked to a message > > board. Use the delete key! There is less off topic writing on either of > > the other lists. > > 2. The other lists are all to do with genealogy: so is your new list. > > Why duplicate the already good work? > > 3. The lists are not 'selective' in what they cover, any more than you > say > > your list will be. For example, would a question such as > > 'My great great grandfather came here on the good ship Lollipop, and > worked > > as a cordwainer. Has anyone any records of the ship, or what the person > > actually did?' This is not genealogy according to the strict definition > > of the term. If you allow that, then what is excluded? > > 4. Others have expressed similar concerns about the need for such a list. > > Many of these concerns have been on the open, existing, lists. Will you > > answer those concerns on the respective lists? > > > > 5. You say that if the other list owners contact you, you are prepared to > > work with them. YOU are the new guy on the block, so YOU should contact > > them, and ask how YOU can support them in the already great work they are > > doing. A new list owner cannot come in to the market, and expect existing > > operators to crawl up and ask how they can help! > > > > 6. How long does it take for messages to appear on the new list? I am > yet > > to see any message! Are you reading each message before sending it to the > > list? I realise that is your right, as list owner, but when will the > first > > message appear? I have visited the archives at Rootsweb, but they say > > either there is no such list, or there have been no messages as yet. > > > > > >