>From the FAQ on the Help page (yes, I already checked; this is depressing) -- Giving up or Transferring boards Administrators should contact the appropriate Message Board Team Coordinator at the contact address shown below to transfer or give up a board. Under no circumstances should a board administrator share, or transfer, his password with another administrator. Contact Addresses The Message Board Administration Team Coordinator responsible for a board may be reached at one of the following addresses: boards-localities@rootsweb.com, boards-surnames@rootsweb.com, or boards-topics@rootsweb.com Nan -----Original Message----- >From: karima@insightbb.com >Sent: Dec 7, 2006 9:25 PM >To: boards-admins@rootsweb.com >Subject: [BAd] Giving up boards . . . how to do it? > >What is the process for giving up boards? > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOARDS-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

nearly hidden at the left bottom of the page. trying to get AC to move it to the top where it used to set where it is easier and much quicker, to click on. For board admins of many, time is important. Don ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Singer" <iansinger@sympatico.ca> To: <boards-admins@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 12:32 PM Subject: Re: [BAd] Unable to Log In > Judy Florian wrote: > >>Congrats on trying to kick the habit, Bob. Hang in there. I can't even >>find the Admin side of the Boards. >> >> >> > Yesterday they said you can still log in at > https://myaccount.rootsweb.com/signin but it does not work for me. > > Ian Singer > > -- > > > ========================================================================= > See my homepage at http://www.iansinger.com > hosted on http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=10623894 > All genealogy is stored in TMG from http://www.whollygenes.com > Charts and searching using TNG from http://www.tngsitebuilding.com > I am near Toronto Canada, can I tell where you are from your reply? > ========================================================================= > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BOARDS-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Now the boards are "live", I'm guessing the admonishment of talking about the beta testing is moot..... Of my fellow admins who were beta testers, I'd like to hear (privately if you'd prefer): What was your overall opinion? Do you remember anything about the list of adminned boards being at the top of your screen? Do you like that feature. Have you found anything on the new boards you like or consider an improvement? Jackie Wilson Goddard -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.15/579 - Release Date: 12/7/2006

Ian, the board admin does have thre options, do nothing, delete, or move the message to the board where it should have been posted to start with. Surnames can be a problem because if there is not a list for them, they cannot be moved. Donal O'Collaugh O'Kelly Please SNIP your headers. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Singer" <iansinger@sympatico.ca> To: <boards-admins@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 6:04 PM Subject: Re: [BAd] Interesting change to FAQ > >>It is not considered good etiquette to post a query or the same >>information to >>several boards at once and your duplicate messages may be deleted by the >>board >>staff or admin on all but the most appropriate board. >> > Is that correct that a Board Admin can delete messages??

On 12/7/06, Janet Kruger <jurnie1999@gmail.com> wrote: > > Where were you seeing colors on posts showing they were read or not read? > They were all the same to me on all my boards when I went through them That's my point. They used to change colors. NOW they don't.

Not that I've seen. Lousy huh? Judy On 12/7/06, Kathleen Burnett <kathleenburnett@earthlink.net> wrote: > > Is there a way to alphabetize the boards on our Ancestry Message Boards > Admin Center so it is easier to locate the board we want to work on? > > Kathleen Burnett > >

At 12:53 PM 12/7/2006, you wrote: > >In a message dated 12/7/2006 4:25:09 AM Eastern Standard Time, >jaws64@comlinkusa.net writes: > >I just went to log in and the log-in link is gone (no I did not clear >the cookies) so something goofy is going on....AGAIN. > >Jackie > > > >Jackie- > >Are you sure the new system didn't auto log you in? Maybe there is a LOGOUT >link instead? > >Joan > Joan, In all actuality, I sent that message around 5 pm (central time zone) on 12/6 - before discovering the "new" board format. Yes, my links are gone. Yes, I have to log in every time. Checking the "Remember me" box does not work. I have more than 1 userid so I do not want to be auto logged on - but SOMETIMES (not always) when I use the "back" button, I get switched from my main id to another one. Freaky. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.15/579 - Release Date: 12/7/2006

Wow! Has Ancestry destroyed the purpose of the message boards for the genealogy community? To freely share data and to make contacts to obtain more detailed data of common interest. Or this for pay service just to be able to get e-mail addresses for those people who have chosen to be anonymous? Why would any genealogist want to be annonymous and not be contacted by anyone if they have posted a query? Is this an oxymoron or am I missing something? -----Original Message----- From: boards-admins-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:boards-admins-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of gc-gateway@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 5:21 PM To: BOARDS-ADMINS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [BAd] Changing account information for boards? E-mails no longer shown This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.rw.admin.badmin/5008/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I hope this doesn't finally show up elsewhere, I tried to post to the mailing list over 1/2 hour ago & it never showed up. I'm sure I will be asked this from the board users. I checked out my boards, when I came upon one of my board posts, I tried clicking the "poster" information (which was myself), it came up that I had chosen the option to remain anonymous (which I had not chosen) and that the connection service is a premium service from Ancestry, which requires basic membership with a minimal subscription fee. Clicking the "Go to Ancestry Profile" button below will take you to genebug2's profile on Ancestry where you can click the "Contact this person" link to send a private, anonymous message through the connection service. When I tried to see if I could reach the information by doing as suggested, there was NO contact info. Is there a secret way to contact other posters to the message boards? Donna ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOARDS-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.rw.admin.badmin/5005.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Actually, I'm kind of unusual in that department: I do like change - as long as it is moving forward. I see no point in going backwards. The boards WERE very good. You could view by all, the classification of your choice, thread collapsed, thread expanded, date collapsed, date expanded. You could view an author's posting history. It was possible to navigate from ONE thread to the next. Now, you can view thread or flat mode, must do an advanced search (10 results per page) to find every message of a certain classification on a board, can NOT view an author's posting history (even your own) and at present you cannot even do an advanced search for the author. Now it is impossible to navigate between threads without "backing out" to the main board view. These are not improvements. Yeah, I do have to like it. I will not waste my time VOLUNTEERING on boards whose functionality has been TRASHED. I'm not the only admin feeling that way either.

I just got this back, why as I was replying to a message and that's what the addresses were that came up with reply. You sent email to this address gc-gateway@rootsweb.com, boards-admins@rootsweb.com *** AUTOMATED MESSAGE FROM A COMPUTER *** You have sent a message to a RootsWeb email address that is no longer valid. This is an automated message from a computer as the email address you have reached is no longer in use. For your convenience, we have included information on some of our features so that your question might be answered. Rest snipped............ Ian Singer -- ========================================================================= See my homepage at http://www.iansinger.com hosted on http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=10623894 All genealogy is stored in TMG from http://www.whollygenes.com Charts and searching using TNG from http://www.tngsitebuilding.com I am near Toronto Canada, can I tell where you are from your reply? =========================================================================

gc-gateway@rootsweb.com wrote: > >Valorie > > > > And the trouble with the format of this message is that it doesn't say anywhere who is writing it except for right at the end where it has a name. Also I hit reply and it's sending it to gc-gateway@rootsweb.com AND boards-admin@rootsweb.com and that can't be right unless one is going to be filtered out. Ian Singer -- ========================================================================= See my homepage at http://www.iansinger.com hosted on http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=10623894 All genealogy is stored in TMG from http://www.whollygenes.com Charts and searching using TNG from http://www.tngsitebuilding.com I am near Toronto Canada, can I tell where you are from your reply? =========================================================================

In a message dated 12/8/2006 2:07:17 AM Eastern Standard Time, jasche45133@gmail.com writes: I took advantage of the feedback link on the bottom of board pages to request that the gateway statement "Posts to this board are copied to the "ASCHE-L" RootsWeb.com mailing list." be moved up to the top of the page where it will be more visible. I think that is important also--it is in such an obscure location that I mised it completely until someone pointed it out to me. It is important that our board posters realize where their posts are going to end up. Joan

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.rw.admin.badmin/5009.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Patrice, I just posted the same problem, except I'm missing the blue screen of death lol. And you and I are both lucky that we copied the HTML before it went poof... so its not all bad :) Janice

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.rw.admin.badmin/5010/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I went to change one word on my Worthley board, in the Board Information section, and it completely messed it up. (Basically it would only show the first 2 sentences. Now I can't even insert just my email graphic without an error. Someone needs to fix that :D Janice

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.rw.admin.badmin/5009.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I can spell, I just can't type. Patrice

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.rw.admin.badmin/5009/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Not really, but almost. I tried to update my new "Board Info" page to my gmail address. I lost all the HTML, can't get the address to update, AND the color changed to turquoise. So I have a Turquoise Screen of Death, instead of helpful info and my email address. (I have a copy of the old HTML, so I can fix that once it is working again. Experimenting earlier today I found that there is an orange bullet next to unread messages. Even if you open and read the message, the bullet stayed. BUT if you click on the sender's name, VOILA! it vanishes. I hope that will be an easy programming fix. Still experimenting. More later. Rel@ively, Patrice

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.rw.admin.badmin/5008/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I hope this doesn't finally show up elsewhere, I tried to post to the mailing list over 1/2 hour ago & it never showed up. I'm sure I will be asked this from the board users. I checked out my boards, when I came upon one of my board posts, I tried clicking the "poster" information (which was myself), it came up that I had chosen the option to remain anonymous (which I had not chosen) and that the connection service is a premium service from Ancestry, which requires basic membership with a minimal subscription fee. Clicking the "Go to Ancestry Profile" button below will take you to genebug2's profile on Ancestry where you can click the "Contact this person" link to send a private, anonymous message through the connection service. When I tried to see if I could reach the information by doing as suggested, there was NO contact info. Is there a secret way to contact other posters to the message boards? Donna

In a message dated 12/8/2006 12:57:44 AM Eastern Standard Time, cageycat@gmail.com writes: And oh, WHERE is the ONE thing almost ALL Admins suggested? The box to put "Here's all the dang names I'm searching so I won't stick them in the surname box" Don't you think My Public Profile would be a suitable place for that? I agree it would be nice to have an explanatory blurb above the surname box explaining proper use. Joan

In a message dated 12/8/2006 12:56:37 AM Eastern Standard Time, Kaesemein@aol.com writes: I found a reply from yesterday Dec. 6th in a thread from an original post dated Oct. 13th, so the threads with the newer posts are NOT at the top of the list. Marilyn- Yes they are--but you have run into a bug I reported yesterday. The thread has moved to the top because a new reply was added but the LAST POST DATE s hown for that thread shows the OLD date when the first post in the thread was posted. That shouldn't be--but if you click on that thread you will see that a new post HAS been added to the thread--it is just that the new date isn't registering correctly. Joan

Joan, > actually everything discussed in this thread is about to go right out the window with the changes made today in the board interface< Is this for sure? But there are still threads, or not? Must have a look at my original question thread - I haven't had time to take it apart (LOL). If ALL is changed now, our thread indeed would've been for nothing (aaaarrrghhh). Tilman