>From Ancestry When the attempt is made to initiate a direct contact with a submitter. A paid Ancestry.com membership is required in order to initiate contact with Ancestry members using this feature. "This I appreciate, as I believe that the information should be relayed through the Rootsweb sites to vaious mailing lists as this is the reason we are researchers at all, not through private converstaions between parties and we therefore chance losing the ability to learn of the individuals findings." A recent post from the Frew-L to this list is a prime example. The writer stated that she wanted direct contact regarding the findings of the other researcher regarding Lily Frew. I follow that line being a Frew descendant, and it just annoys the heck out of me when I see something like that. We all lose, so I believe that the policy taken by Ancestry and Rootsweb is the right one." Best regards, Linda Nordby **Please note that all members registered with Ancestry.com or RootsWeb.com can view and reply to messages received from others on Ancestry.com, whether they have a paid membership or not. Ancestry.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Irene Mitchell <imitchell@telus.net> Date: Thursday, February 4, 2010 11:52 am Subject: [AYR] Message Board Posts To: AYRSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com > Hello, Ayrshire researchers: > > After posting my earlier message about not being able to respond > to a message at Ancestry, I have made a discovery. > > As I said in my earlier posting, if you get an e-mail from the > Message Board Administration Team and follow the link provided, > if you aren't a member of Ancestry you are unable to reply to > the posting. > > HOWEVER, once the message is gatewayed to AYRSHIRE-L by way of > the gc-gateway@rootsweb.com, it appears it is then possible to > follow the link in that message and post a reply. I do not > understand why this should be the case, but it > works! > > Irene in B.C. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AYRSHIRE- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >