Marilyn, I'm in agreement with you and I'm disgusted with this change--especially after we received the notice that the board updates were put off indefinitely! I breathed a big sigh of relief when that notice came out---especially after all the headaches with the list migration. Now to throw this at us out of the blue AND to do it 3 weeks before Christmas is VERY thoughtless. All of a sudden I have to sit here tweaking around trying to learn how to admin. this "new and improved" look when I have other things to do to prepare for the holidays???? This "part time volunteer" job is turning into a full time job! Don't know why this couldn't have been put off until January when we're all snowed in with nothing to do. It took me almost an hour to try to find the login page to even get to my boards, until Joan Y finally provided the URL for the old Admin. Page, and now I see that my Username to access my PAID portion of ancestry, is showing up on the boards, which I'm NOT happy about AT ALL!!! How to I change that???? I'm also not seeing any surname window on any of the messages, and when I tried to edit and enter surnames and click "submit" it didn't work. And how do I go about getting the messages to show in Date Expanded mode. I think it's the only way to manage/edit messages.....especially when posters are replying to posts that are a few months or years old. To make matters worse......I'm on AOL and they are delaying ALL my rootsweb email 6 to 8 hours so I'm not getting replies to the problems/questions that are raised. BAH HUMBUG! :-( Another Marilyn ---------------original message------------------ In a message dated 12/7/2006 6:33:11 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, marilynandmonty@cox.net writes: Then it isn't just me :-( First of all, I cannot get into manage my boards. No recognition of the only user name and password I've ever used for Ancestry & then Rootsweb boards. So I went in like I was just browsing and saw the boards and have to say I am very very upset if that is the way it is going to be. There is a way you can see the messages in "flat" style, I think it is called, but it doesn't look like we can change them from date order to threaded. Maybe I just don't know about it yet and will get the message that's supposed to be coming explaining how to admin the boards. I always reviewed in Date order and would "back into" each message of the thread, put them into threaded order and edit an entire thread at once. From the looks of what I saw today, that isn't going to happen. I hope I am wrong and the initial reaction will turn out not to be how I think it is. Otherwise, it is time to move onto other pursuits and leave the board admin duties to someone else. I never did get the notice on the BAd list about this - I saw it on the Listowners' list. Marilyn G. -------------------- I

On the top of ancesty's pages there is a link that says 'my public profile' I believe that you can make your changes there. On 12/7/06, Tribehunter@aol.com <Tribehunter@aol.com> wrote: > > Marilyn, > > I'm in agreement with you and I'm disgusted with this change--especially > after we received the notice that the board updates were put off indefinitely! > I breathed a big sigh of relief when that > notice came out---especially after all the headaches with the list migration. > > Now to throw this at us out of the blue AND to do it 3 weeks before > Christmas is VERY thoughtless. All of a sudden I have to sit here tweaking around > trying to learn how to admin. this "new and improved" look when I have other > things to do to prepare for the holidays???? This "part time volunteer" > job is turning into a full time job! Don't know why this couldn't have been > put off until January when we're all snowed in with nothing to do. > > It took me almost an hour to try to find the login page to even get to my > boards, until Joan Y finally > provided the URL for the old Admin. Page, and now I see that my Username to > access my PAID portion of ancestry, is showing up on the boards, which I'm > NOT happy about AT ALL!!! How to I change that???? > > I'm also not seeing any surname window on any of the messages, and when I > tried to edit and enter surnames and click "submit" it didn't work. And how > do I go about getting the messages to show in > Date Expanded mode. I think it's the only way to manage/edit > messages.....especially when posters are replying to posts that are a few months or years > old. > > To make matters worse......I'm on AOL and they are delaying ALL my rootsweb > email 6 to 8 hours so > I'm not getting replies to the problems/questions that are raised. > > BAH HUMBUG! :-( > Another Marilyn > > ---------------original message------------------ > In a message dated 12/7/2006 6:33:11 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > marilynandmonty@cox.net writes: > > Then it isn't just me :-( > First of all, I cannot get into manage my boards. No recognition of the only > user name and password I've ever used for Ancestry & then Rootsweb boards. > So I went in like I was just browsing and saw the boards and have to say I > am very very upset if that is the way it is going to be. There is a way you > can see the messages in "flat" style, I think it is called, but it doesn't > look like we can change them from date order to threaded. Maybe I just don't > know about it yet and will get the message that's supposed to be coming > explaining how to admin the boards. > > I always reviewed in Date order and would "back into" each message of the > thread, put them into threaded order and edit an entire thread at once. From > the looks of what I saw today, that isn't going to happen. > > I hope I am wrong and the initial reaction will turn out not to be how I > think it is. Otherwise, it is time to move onto other pursuits and leave the > board admin duties to someone else. > > I never did get the notice on the BAd list about this - I saw it on the > Listowners' list. > Marilyn G. > > > > -------------------- > > I > > ------------------------------- > 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 > -- Happy Holidays Please visit my greetings page http://www.jasche.com/XMas.html