Hi Cheryl, I think most (?) admins just bookmark a board or put their boards into Favorites and we just go visit the boards on our own set schedules. Some check every day; others a few times a week; others once a week. It's also good practice to visit the boards regularly vs. relying on alerts because you'll miss seeing if you have Objections waiting. At least, this is my opinion. :-) Judy On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:43 AM, singhals <singhals@erols.com> wrote: > On Sep 26, JYoung6180@aol.com wrote: > > > David Graham posted a message on the boards acknowledging the problem > with > > the daily alerts emails and saying it's now been fixed. > > Well, it's the 4th of Oct according to my morning newspaper > and I still haven't seen an admin notice since the 25th. > > Gawd, I can't even get spam on my board ... ;) > > Cheryl > WVHampsh

Well, I've sort of assumed, all these years, that if I got no alert, there was nothing to admin and I didn't have to spend time admining nothing...so t'speak. However, I just now went over (since I actually got a 54.0 connext this afternoon), and Lo! 51 messags dating back to my last admin notice. In case anyone else is relying on those admin messages ... Cheryl JYoung6180@aol.com wrote: > Well, I don't rely on the alert EMAILS either. I just go to the admin > center and click on My Alerts and review my boards from there. > > Joan > > > In a message dated 10/4/2009 1:51:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > mdtaffet@twcny.rr.com writes: > > I guess I must be the only board admin who never even pays attention to > message board alerts at all (unless they are ill-formed, indicating a > technical problem of some kind), and would never notice if I never even > got any at all. I rely almost exclusively on gatewayed message board > posts coming to the paired mailing list in order to do any maintenance > that needs to be done. > > -- Mary

My point was to discover if I'm just lucky or if others are also not getting admin messages. Apparently, I'm lucky. Cheryl David E. Cann wrote: > Makes sense to me, Joan, but I've gotta wonder what the point of Cheryl's > post is on a list of fellow board admins who can do nothing about it. :-( > It would appear to me to be a comment better directed to HD in the first > place. :-( > > > David E. Cann > decann@infionline.net > > > -----Original Message----- > From: boards-admins-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:boards-admins-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of JYoung6180@aol.com > Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 11:58 AM > To: singhals@erols.com; boards-admins@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [BAd] Deja Vu all over again: No Message Board Alerts? Again? > > I guess the question is ... have the boards had posts within the past 24 > hours? If not, there won't be an alerts e-mail. > > Joan

I received a long list of alerts yesterday. donkelly, Oregon ----- Original Message ----- From: JYoung6180@aol.com To: singhals@erols.com, boards-admins@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 15:58:19 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [BAd] Deja Vu all over again: No Message Board Alerts? Again? I guess the question is ... have the boards had posts within the past 24 hours? If not, there won't be an alerts e-mail. Joan In a message dated 10/4/2009 11:43:52 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, singhals@erols.com writes: On Sep 26, JYoung6180@aol.com wrote: > David Graham posted a message on the boards acknowledging the problem with > the daily alerts emails and saying it's now been fixed. Well, it's the 4th of Oct according to my morning newspaper and I still haven't seen an admin notice since the 25th. Gawd, I can't even get spam on my board ... ;) Cheryl WVHampsh ------------------------------- 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

Well, I don't rely on the alert EMAILS either. I just go to the admin center and click on My Alerts and review my boards from there. Joan In a message dated 10/4/2009 1:51:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, mdtaffet@twcny.rr.com writes: I guess I must be the only board admin who never even pays attention to message board alerts at all (unless they are ill-formed, indicating a technical problem of some kind), and would never notice if I never even got any at all. I rely almost exclusively on gatewayed message board posts coming to the paired mailing list in order to do any maintenance that needs to be done. -- Mary

I guess I must be the only board admin who never even pays attention to message board alerts at all (unless they are ill-formed, indicating a technical problem of some kind), and would never notice if I never even got any at all. I rely almost exclusively on gatewayed message board posts coming to the paired mailing list in order to do any maintenance that needs to be done. -- Mary singhals wrote: > On Sep 26, JYoung6180@aol.com wrote: > >> David Graham posted a message on the boards acknowledging the problem with >> the daily alerts emails and saying it's now been fixed. > > Well, it's the 4th of Oct according to my morning newspaper > and I still haven't seen an admin notice since the 25th. > > Gawd, I can't even get spam on my board ... ;) > > Cheryl > WVHampsh

Makes sense to me, Joan, but I've gotta wonder what the point of Cheryl's post is on a list of fellow board admins who can do nothing about it. :-( It would appear to me to be a comment better directed to HD in the first place. :-( David E. Cann decann@infionline.net -----Original Message----- From: boards-admins-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:boards-admins-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of JYoung6180@aol.com Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 11:58 AM To: singhals@erols.com; boards-admins@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BAd] Deja Vu all over again: No Message Board Alerts? Again? I guess the question is ... have the boards had posts within the past 24 hours? If not, there won't be an alerts e-mail. Joan <snip>

I guess the question is ... have the boards had posts within the past 24 hours? If not, there won't be an alerts e-mail. Joan In a message dated 10/4/2009 11:43:52 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, singhals@erols.com writes: On Sep 26, JYoung6180@aol.com wrote: > David Graham posted a message on the boards acknowledging the problem with > the daily alerts emails and saying it's now been fixed. Well, it's the 4th of Oct according to my morning newspaper and I still haven't seen an admin notice since the 25th. Gawd, I can't even get spam on my board ... ;) Cheryl WVHampsh

On Sep 26, JYoung6180@aol.com wrote: > David Graham posted a message on the boards acknowledging the problem with > the daily alerts emails and saying it's now been fixed. Well, it's the 4th of Oct according to my morning newspaper and I still haven't seen an admin notice since the 25th. Gawd, I can't even get spam on my board ... ;) Cheryl WVHampsh

I've been getting mine. Nan On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:43 AM, singhals <singhals@erols.com> wrote: > On Sep 26, JYoung6180@aol.com wrote: > > > David Graham posted a message on the boards acknowledging the problem > with > > the daily alerts emails and saying it's now been fixed. > > Well, it's the 4th of Oct according to my morning newspaper > and I still haven't seen an admin notice since the 25th. > > Gawd, I can't even get spam on my board ... ;) > > Cheryl > WVHampsh > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

You should be all right as long as the username you have associated with your board admin duties. Joan In a message dated 9/30/2009 12:21:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Tribehunter@aol.com writes: I admin 35 boards, but I'm not happy with my Username which I set up about 5 yrs. ago. If I go to My Account and change my Username will that cause any problems with the boards I admin? Such as me not showing up as administrator any longer? Thanks, Marilyn

I admin 35 boards, but I'm not happy with my Username which I set up about 5 yrs. ago. If I go to My Account and change my Username will that cause any problems with the boards I admin? Such as me not showing up as administrator any longer? Thanks, Marilyn

David Graham posted a message on the boards acknowledging the problem with the daily alerts emails and saying it's now been fixed. Joan In a message dated 9/26/2009 11:29:36 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, nstarjak@gmail.com writes: I got one this morning. Looks like they may have gone from total failure to spotty failures. Nan

LouMKing@aol.com wrote: > I haven't received any Message Board Alerts for 3 days. Anyone else > noticing the same thing? Yup; Sep 15 to 23, no admin notices, on the 23rd, I got 53 in one swathe; and it's now the 26th and haven't seen one since the 23rd. Not that I have a major objection, mind; 99% of what gets sent to there is SPAM anyway so whether I delete it once a day or once a week can't do too much harm ... Cheryl

I got one this morning. Looks like they may have gone from total failure to spotty failures. Nan On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:14 AM, singhals <singhals@erols.com> wrote: > LouMKing@aol.com wrote: > > > I haven't received any Message Board Alerts for 3 days. Anyone else > > noticing the same thing? > > Yup; Sep 15 to 23, no admin notices, on the 23rd, I got 53 > in one swathe; and it's now the 26th and haven't seen one > since the 23rd. > > Not that I have a major objection, mind; 99% of what gets > sent to there is SPAM anyway so whether I delete it once a > day or once a week can't do too much harm ... > > Cheryl > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

> I've asked David to reopen the gateway. I wonder if > it would help if more of us requested it. Where do we write? Before your post, I was considering writing to listmaster@rootsweb.com and messageboards@rootsweb.com. If there are other address we should write to as well (or instead of), I'd like to hear and no doubt others would too! :-) Wendy

> I didn't think to check the Board Admins. board. If the gateway was reinstated we wouldn't *have* to remember to check both the list and the board! <sigh> Wendy

Really? We're supposed to be still getting those? I haven't had any since April. Rick B ----- Original Message ----- From: LouMKing@aol.com To: BOARDS-ADMINS@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 2:33 PM Subject: [BAd] No Message Board Alerts? Again? I haven't received any Message Board Alerts for 3 days. Anyone else noticing the same thing? Lou ------------------------------- 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

Wendy, I have so many questions it seems I'm in constant contact with David. <vbg> I just write via the Help Desk pages, but you could always write to messageboards@rootsweb.com Kind regards, Lynne Wendy Howard wrote: > > I've asked David to reopen the gateway. I wonder if > > it would help if more of us requested it. > >Where do we write? Before your post, I was considering writing to >listmaster@rootsweb.com and messageboards@rootsweb.com. If there are >other address we should write to as well (or instead of), I'd like to >hear and no doubt others would too! :-) > > >

Messageboards would be the correct address -- and that will filter to the proper staffer at the HelpDesk. Joan In a message dated 9/24/2009 5:39:47 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, wendy.howard@gmail.com writes: Where do we write? Before your post, I was considering writing to listmaster@rootsweb.com and messageboards@rootsweb.com. If there are other address we should write to as well (or instead of), I'd like to hear and no doubt others would too! :-) Wendy