This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bircheat/Pendley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BF.2ADIAE/1198.1.2 Message Board Post: Dear Joan, Thank you. I did do the "welcome" through the link/announcement box but was not sure if that was the correct place to do it. Thanks so much for getting back to me. Dee

Hi Dee, I thought I should mention these two things since I noticed it on your Board and because Admins need to take care to lead by example in their own posts The first is that the surname box should never have anything but commas between names. You have quite a number of posts with a / between names, such as on this http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=surnames.bircheat&m=36 You've carried on the practice even on your posts to the Boards-Admins board, such as in the quoted material below. The second thing I noticed is that in many of your initial posts you start the subject with Re: Technically "re:" loosely means "regarding " or about (like "Regarding/About Mary Jane Birceat") but on ALL boards the "re:" means "in reference to the first post." or "regarding (the same subject as in the initial post") So all of your initial posts should be posted without the "re" and all 2nd, 3rd, etc posts in a thread should start with "re". I'm concerned that board users will become all confused with seeing so many initial posts begin with "re" as though you're responding to another poster. I'm seeing more people on Lists do the same thing (use re: on a 1st post) and then I'm always thinking I missed the 1st email or beginning of a thread of emails --- but there are no emailS plural, there is just the ONE email which is actually an initial email, not in reply to a previous email. The improper use of "re:" is beginning to be a pet peeve of mine - LOL I hope you'll enjoy being a new admin. Judy On 27 Aug 2006 22:41:59 -0600, deedee@ablewise.com <deedee@ablewise.com> wrote: > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Bircheat/Pendley > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BF.2ADIAE/1198.1.2 > > Message Board Post: > > Dear Joan, > Thank you. I did do the "welcome" through the link/announcement box but > was not sure if that was the correct place to do it. Thanks so much for > getting back to me. > > Dee > -- ~PRIMARY NAMES: ANTHONY, BAKER, FLOWERS, LANE, SEPTER~ Washington Co PA free Websites: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~florian http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~florian County Coordinator for http://www.rootsweb.com/~pawashin/ Researchers of Washington County PA, join our map: http://www.frappr.com/researchingwashingtoncopa