see below On Jul 23, 2006, at 6:16 PM, JYoung6180@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 7/23/2006 8:47:03 PM Eastern Standard Time, > jhflann@drizzle.com writes: > > Hi Folks: > > I'm the Admin for the Mercereau Message Board and the Mersereau > Message > Board. > > I'm also the Admin for the Mersereau-L Mailing list. Which is a List > for > surname Mersereau, and all its known variants. One of these variants > is > Mercereau. After the creation of the Mercereau Message Board, I tried > to get > a corresponding Mercereau-L Mailing List created, but the request was > denied, since the Mersereau-L list covered that variant. > > So, is there a way to have the Mercereau Message Board gatewayed to > the > Mersereau-L list? > > Halsey > ------------------------------------------ > Halsey- > > I think perhaps you have misunderstood the reason for the MERCEREAU > variant > list not being created. RootsWeb never denies a request for a variant > surname list as long as you would be willing to admin the list once it > is created. > At present there is a general moratorium on the creation of new lists > until > the new list management system is in place--might this have been why > your > list was denied--or rather delayed? > > Joan Halsey, This has to be right or they would have never given me boards and lists for my McCart(a)(e)(o)(in)n's. Diane